Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more liberal congregations, heaven is found mostly in hymns, preserved like a bug in amber. There are still some churches where one can find a robust heavenly vision in the late 1990s--among Southern Baptists, and African-American denominations as a whole. But most late-20th century American Christians, observes Jeffrey Burton Russell, have a better grasp of heaven's cliches than of its allures. "It's this place where you've got wings, you stand on a cloud, and if the concept is more sophisticated, where you see God and you sing hymns. It's a boring place...
Nationwide scores on the SAT, which is taken by 41 percent of all high-school seniors, have been dropping since the 1950s, although the decline has leveled off since the early 1990s. The gap between young women's and men's scores has narrowed over the last several decades, Penn said...
Back when the first news of successful human cloning was announced, humanity split into two irreconcilable camps: those who said, "How demonic!" and those, like myself--beloved and durable film star Corey Holiday--who said, "Hey! Where do I send my money?" In those glorious late-1990s days of film screenings, PETA rallies and fragrance launches, guests at events invariably divided into the anticloners, with their earnest discussions of ethics, inbreeding and hillbilly'ed gene pools, and those like myself, so eager and so thrilled to be able to bring humanity the gift of such tried-and-true looks, talent...
Author David Horowitz recently published an autobiography titled Radical Son that describes his transformation from a radical leftist in the 1960s to an advocate of conservative politics in the 1990s...
...this cost cutting has accompanied one other remarkable change in the way airlines do business. The mid-1990s have seen the major carriers, in effect, stop picking one another's pockets. Where once they seemed to have a policy of infinite expansion into competitors' territories, now they view wholesale expansion as too dangerous. The last carrier to seriously invade another's main hub was a Continental operation called Continental Lite, which attempted to win market share in major Eastern markets. Continental Lite sank in 1995, losing $300 million. Since then the hub-and-spoke carriers have retreated to their fortresses...