Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 1990s, the center had ceased to hold. Part of the problem was Jon. David Travis, an editorial, financial and clerical worker for the organization for three years, ending in August 1995, reports that Madalyn's son, whom she had pressed on her fellow board members as her successor, didn't "even know when to be polite." Says Kerns: "He had no special training, nor a great number of social skills, as well as a speech impediment. He was at an extreme disadvantage, and he was aware that he'd been put in a position beyond his abilities to handle...
...number of transfer students accepted has been on the decline since the early 1990s, while the number of applicants has actually increased...
Here's a quick way to tell you're watching a mid-1990s independent film: PARKER POSEY is in it. The poised but perky 28-year-old was the toast of last week's Sundance Film Festival, appearing in three films, one of which Miramax bought for $2 million. Posey's characters range from a wisecracking temp to a chain-smoking music publicist to a mentally ill woman with a Jackie O. fixation. Having been in at least 15 independent films since she left As the World Turns four years ago, Posey is something of an expert on the genre...
...Nostalgia: 1990s Hey, the Founders wore them, and now it's hip to be oval...
Only three years ago Guess was making 97% of its garments in the U.S. But Guess president Paul Marciano--one of four immigrant French brothers who founded the company in 1981--claims the job exports have nothing to do with the UNITE campaign. In the early 1990s, charging $60 to $70 per pair, Guess was the top designer-jeans merchant. In the past two years, high-end labels such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren--many of them manufactured abroad--moved aggressively into denim, pricing their jeans at $48. Guess sales plunged, and Marciano says...