Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 1990s, firms remained chastened from earlier tough times, she said. But in the last few years, employers have increased their hiring...
...signs of a kind of reading renaissance--from the rise of espresso-serving superstores to the emergence, on national TV and in countless living rooms, of book clubs and reading groups. At the least, it appears, reading books (or listening to them in the Jeep) is to the 1990s what gymgoing was to the '80s: something we plan to do, something we want to do and, by all appearances, something everyone else is doing, even Oprah viewers. Perhaps primarily Oprah viewers...
Every nation gets the TV it deserves. And 1990s America, a land replete with both couch potatoes and high-tech capitalists, surely deserves high-definition television (HDTV), the digital TV signal whose aesthetic pleasures and economic efficiencies will transform the shows we watch and the boxes we watch them on. Last week the Federal Communications Commission voted to give broadcasters free channels on which to broadcast digital versions of their current programs. A few questions about the future of the boob tube...
...early 1990s the group renewed its recruitment campaign. (Some members even tried turning the cult's manifesto into a prime-time series.) A 1993 ad in USA Today carried this message: "Caution: If the above information is assimilated, you may experience such side effects as loss of marriage, family, friends, career, respectability, and credibility. Continued use could even result in the loss of your membership in the human kingdom." No one can say they weren't warned...
Novell is a company that has been repeatedly torpedoed and nearly sunk by Microsoft. The Utah-based firm (1996 sales: $1.3 billion) owned the market for local- area-network software in the early 1990s, but has been losing share to Microsoft's Windows NT. Though Novell has tried to refocus, its stock recently traded at a near all-time low. Investors are doubting its chances of beating Big Geek (as Microsoft has become known...