Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasons Saturday's loss is so upsetting is because the Harvard lacrosse program has been undergoing a promising upward trend in the 1990s, a trend that culminated in reaching the quarterfinals of last year's NCAA tournament. Losing to Dartmouth would have been unthinkable last year, no matter how close the game actually was. The Crimson had loftier goals back then, such as taking on Hofstra and the University of Virginia in the NCAAs...
That is a zealot's stretch. But the trend toward "strategic philanthropy"--giving in a way that benefits the corporate bottom line--is unmistakable. In the lean and mean 1990s, companies are taking a close look at where every penny they give away goes. More and more, they are focusing on areas that resonate with their customers. So Whirlpool, whose main customers are mothers, concentrates on funding things like child care and job training for women...
...century winds down? "Convinced of exhaustion, extreme peril, exorbitant risk, explosive transformation." This is historian Hillel Schwartz's description of the fin-de-siecle mind-set in his definitive book Century's End. Schwartz was writing in 1988 and looking forward to a bang-up final decade. Indeed, the 1990s got off to a respectable fin-de-siecle start, what with the Gulf War and the fall of communism, the L.A. riots, even the apocalyptic rhetoric of the Republican revolution. But in the two years since Oklahoma City, the rough edges of the national psyche seem to have been sanded...
...with stock options before, they just might get what they ask for. Cutting options grants today in favor of other incentives might prove to be a case of bad timing. The stock market is a self-correcting mechanism, even though it hasn't seemed that way in the 1990s. The market may finally be entering a long overdue cooling period, which would naturally fix some glaring excesses in CEO pay--so long, that is, as companies resist the inevitable CEO pleadings to revise their pay deals in a flat or falling market...
...stumbled on this mailbox effect, they quickly realized that it could revolutionize surgery. In the past, most patients were put to sleep with a general anesthetic, which dulls the brain's memory of what has happened but does nothing to stop the spinal nerves from reacting. In the early 1990s, Basbaum's team showed that the spinal cord triggers a cascade of chemical and electrical signals during an operation. Once the brain comes out of its anesthesia-induced fog, it translates all this electrochemical activity into sheer agony...