Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House always give its funders the heavy preference they expected? That's less clear. Research from another watchdog, the Center for Public Integrity, indicates that nongivers outnumbered givers on trips 2 to 1. Records compiled by the group show that in the early 1990s, at least 187 firms (including Time Warner, parent company of TIME's publisher) took part in trade missions sponsored by Commerce. Of those, 67 firms, or 36%, were Democratic Party donors. And many of those gave money to the G.O.P. as well...
Danes and DiCaprio speak most eloquently with their faces (hers strong, his soft) and with the hurt and ardor that make this a Rebel Without a Cause for the '90s--1590s or 1990s. Sometimes it takes a radical like Luhrmann to get to the root of a natural-born screenwriter like Shakespeare...
...even IBM could withstand the seismic shifts that rocked the industry in the early 1990s. As personal computers increased in power, many customers began moving their data-processing chores to smaller, desktop systems. The shock waves bent many "big iron" manufacturers out of shape, including Prime Computer and Control Data Corp., which stopped making mainframes after heavy losses. Many companies like Wang Laboratories and Unisys have largely switched from hardware to software. The biggest fallen giant is Digital Equipment Corp., which last week reported a larger than expected quarterly loss of $66 million. Once the No. 2 computer maker after...
...Senator, Stabenow poses a decent challenge to incumbent Dick Chrysler. She is a moderate, and emphasizes her work on behalf of business. As a Michigan legislator, she sponsored an amendment that scrapped the state's old property-tax system and led to a tax cut, and in the early 1990s she helped strengthen Michigan's drunk-driving laws...
...Apple's feisty liberals and the upstate conservatives is alive and well in the Empire State, contributing to the nearly even split in its congressional delegation. This year, though, the Democrats hope to make up for some of the seats they have lost to the G.O.P. in the 1990s...