Word: 1990s
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...early 1990s, the number of science and engineering Ph.D.s awarded to Chinese in the U.S. exceeded the number awarded in China itself, the article said. Chinese students also became the single largest group of foreign students in the U.S., receiving 2,751 Ph.D.s in 1995, about 10 percent of the total...
Economists point out that the Digital Revolution has not yet been reflected in productivity statistics. The annual growth of nonfarm productivity during the 1980s and 1990s has averaged about 1%, in contrast to almost 3% in the 1960s. But that may be changing. During the past year, productivity grew about 2.5%. And in the most recent quarter the rate was more than...
...least two decades, to be cool was to be "cool." And then, suddenly, it was not. As with all extreme cultural tendencies, something had to snap, and what began to show up in the mid-1990s was an insistent desire to feel passion again and show us you care. In 1995 psychologist Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. The best seller was embraced in educational circles because EQ (emotional quotient) offered a way to counter IQ as a standard of intelligence. But it was also a signal that the public at large might...
...their emissions 15% below 1990 levels by the year 2010. Easy for them to say: Europe relies heavily on emission-free nuclear power. Besides, the collapse of the former East Germany's antiquated industries and a massive switchover in Great Britain from coal to natural gas during the 1990s have given Europe a big head start toward that goal...
DIED. EDWIN ROSARIO, 34, troubled boxer; of acute pulmonary edema that may have been caused by drugs; in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. Thrice world lightweight champion, Rosario was brought low by cocaine abuse in the early 1990s...