Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business dealings might benefit from some scrutiny, the same might be said about some of his business associates--like a Georgian wheeler-dealer named Vasili Patarkalishvili. He was the one who thought up the smart-card and hazelnut ventures. Patarkalishvili has had other brushes with controversy. In the early 1990s he opened Liberty Bank, ostensibly to operate in Georgia and the U.S. But in 1994 the Comptroller of the Currency issued a warning that the bank was not authorized to operate on American soil. The bank shut down in the U.S. Now Patarkalishvili and several partners are being sued...
...March 30-May 28, 2000: "Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity, Paintings from the 1990s," "Lasker Curates Selections from the Brandeis University Art Collections...
...city was first awarded the AAA designation by Moody's in the early 1990s and by Fitch last month, Maloney said...
...teacher in the 1990s, they say, means to have one's authority challenged daily. It's not just the kids who talk back. Some students curse at them; others don't bother to come to class on time. Teachers may send them to the office to be reprimanded, but the kids usually return the next day with a grudge. Some teachers, they say, don't even bother to assign homework because the students won't do it and will flunk the class. And if teachers have high fail rates, school administrators come down on them...
...Force last week grounded forever the training plane that killed three rookie pilots and their instructors at the Air Force Academy. The service spent $32 million on 110 of the prop-driven T-3 Fireflies in the early 1990s. Its goal: to put fledgling pilots into acrobatic maneuvers that would screen out pilots who would have later failed at more demanding--and costlier--jets...