Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Keil--the "lone house." In retrospect, the description sounds ominously prophetic. Located in south Sudan's western Upper Nile region, Duar found itself at the epicenter of a deadly epidemic--one of the least publicized to hit Africa in recent decades--that raged through the late 1980s and the 1990s. Of Duar's more than 1,000 original inhabitants, only four were left alive. The epidemic also took the lives of more than 100,000 people in the surrounding region...
There are few threads running from that team to this year's. But there have been two constants which have defined the Astros for the 1990s. Two players, inextricably linked, have carried the franchise...
...boasting that they are" tough on crime." As a result, movements to shorten the time between sentencing and execution are spreading throughout states which allow for capital punishment. Of the 401 executions completed since the death penalty was reinstated, about 70 percent of them have occurred in the 1990s...
...early 1990s, members of the society regularly prayed in a room in the basement of Memorial Hall...
...online experience wasn't an easy sell, but when the business began to pick up in the early 1990s, it picked up fast. From 200,000 members in 1992, AOL surged to 1 million by 1994, 4 million by late 1995 and 8 million by last January. As AOL shot up, it passed CompuServe and Prodigy on the way down. The market changed overnight, and forever. Millions of Americans instantly recognized the value of getting online, and AOL was their first, best hope...