Word: 1990s
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...that emerges in Kyoto and the national policies that follow. In the 1980s, California provided tax incentives and access to the power grid for new energy sources, which enabled the state to dominate renewable-energy markets worldwide. Similar incentives and access have been offered by European countries in the 1990s. Sometimes such measures are needed to overcome the momentum of a century's investment in fossil fuels...
Condon didn't start out that way. At Duke law school, says a classmate, Condon was a middle-of-the-road Democrat. He became a local prosecutor in 1980 at age 27--the youngest in state history. But in the early 1990s, he sensed changes in the political winds, critics say, and switched parties. "Charlie Condon will be anything that 51% of the population wants him to be," says a bitter Dick Harpootlian, a Columbia lawyer who lost to Condon in 1994. "He's now helping move South Carolina faster toward the 19th century than toward the 21st...
...spoons and dishes in the quantities Lam ordered? And why was the money from sales in Europe so much less than might have been expected, given the glowing reports Lam's aides got about buyer reaction? Tim McCarthy, then president of Izabel Lam International, visited Europe in the early 1990s and quickly solved the mystery. The Thais had not only pirated the designs but had also set up their own network of European agents who sold the cutlery and sent the money back to Thailand...
Never has a small purple fruit caused so much heated debate. From the 1960s to the 1990s, California table grapes have been a bone of contention between labor activists and agricultural interests...
Scientists first became interested in designer estrogens in the early 1990s. While studying a powerful new anticancer drug called tamoxifen, which works by blocking estrogen's ability to stimulate breast tissue, they discovered that it also helped prevent osteoporosis. The drug seemed to act like an estrogen in the bone but an anti-estrogen in the breast. Unfortunately, it also acted like an estrogen in the uterus, dramatically increasing the risk of uterine cancer. So researchers set out to find a chemical cousin of tamoxifen that would be easier on the uterus...