Word: 1990s
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Many developing countries are now facing exploding rates of infection that far outstrip those seen in the U.S., both in magnitude and rate of growth. More than 90 percent of all new HIV cases are in developing countries. It was in Manipur, India, in the early 1990s that the fastest growth rate of HIV infection in the world was recorded. Within less than 18 months, rates of infection among the city's intravenous drug users skyrocketed from less than 2 percent to more than 90 percent. India now has more than 5 million cases of HIV, more than any other...
...conflicts need not exist. When PBHA is strong, as it presently is, the organization itself demonstrates that we don't need to have warring tribes. Through participation in the settlement house movement in the 1920s, during the activism of the 1970s, and with the new college volunteerism of the 1990s, PBHA and a host of other public service programs at Harvard and Radcliffe have attempted to bring the "must do mores" and the "stop it all nows" together. Some programs can accomplish this by including both service and action (the Small Claims Advisory Service simultaneously provides advice on negotiating small...
...goes back to the desire to nest, to revel in the comforts of home--priorities that have come to define the 1990s. And it's why coffeemakers that automatically grind the beans before brewing will get more attention this year than they have in the past. Our standards are higher, and we're ready to upgrade. The result is a kitchen that's more Jetsons than Julia Child...
...link the 10 million-plus people already in its databases with Harrah's 16 casinos across the country. The concept of the ATM-size card, which is inserted into the back of a slot machine to record the player's wins and losses, has been around since the early 1990s. Most casinos now offer one as part of membership in a "slot club." (By gambling, players accumulate points, like frequent-flyer miles, and can then redeem them for casino freebies such as rooms, meals and even cash.) But Harrah's is the first gambling company to link all 6 million...
...purchasing lists from credit-card companies, the casinos know what you buy, and then they can track census data to approximate your home value and income. Then there are the direct-mail lists. One such list from the early 1990s was baldly called the "Compulsive Gamblers Special" and promised to deliver 200,000 names of people with "unquenchable appetites for all forms of gambling." Another list features "some 250,000 hard-core gamblers." Yet another purveys the names of 80,000 people who responded to a vacation-sweepstakes-telemarketing pitch. Such lists allow the gaming companies to tailor their direct...