Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Goizueta's unyielding, unquenchable resolve to increase shareholder value became the dominant management theme of the 1990s. His strategy: if a business doesn't add value, say goodbye. "I know something very simple," Goizueta told FORTUNE in 1995, "and that is: the way to become richer is you borrow money at a certain rate and invest it at a higher rate and pocket the difference. So we went very methodically over much of our business...
...1990s progressed, more verification of the importance of phonemic awareness came from studies conducted by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health. Under the direction of Reid Lyon, researchers have found that problems with phonemic awareness correlate extremely closely with reading failure. Other NICHD studies have reaffirmed the conclusions reached by Chall and Adams--that programs with some systematic phonics instruction lead to better outcomes. Finally, brain-imaging studies are beginning to show how poor readers differ neurologically from good readers, and the indication so far is that the former have less...
...social commentators like to say: the McCarthy era, the end of enforced racial segregation, the street riots of the 1960s. But have you heard of the NEA Four? A generation from now, historians may see that hapless quartet as embodying the less than tumultuous times of the 1990s. For this is the era of tiny commotions...
PROHIBITION 1990S-STYLE...
Diana only became a so-called "social worker" after her marriage broke up, starting in the 1990s. Much of the reason for this change, it seems, came from her need for attention and revenge rather than for the particular cause or charity at hand. Today, one never hears that she manipulated the press in order to make herself look good at the expense of the royal family, and that she timed her appearances to coincide with and upstage important events hosted by the other royals...