Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...average of $34,000. Green Tree's break came in the 1980s, when the savings-and-loan crisis drove many thrifts out of the mobile-home market. The company moved quickly into the vacuum. The gamble paid off big when the mobile-home market took off in the early 1990s. Since then, the firm has upgraded its relationship with dealers, establishing 24-hour service centers in St. Paul and Rapid City, South Dakota...
...Judy Jr. (Playten), daughter of Judy baby and Judy Bell, decides she's a lesbian, yet gets pregnant. The viewer is left with the sense that things have been taken just a little bit too far in Gordon's attempt to modernize Punch and Judy for the 1990s...
Punch and Judy Get Divorced is a new musical describing, as the title suggests, the divorce of the famous puppet characters. Through witty songs and well-chore-ographed dance, it is able to successfully address the problems of marriage in the 1990s, while providing plenty of comic relief. Punch and Judy become the archetypal married couple; as Judy 1 (Lola Pashalinski) says: "We've been together for 200 some odd years--some very...
Clearly Canadian, based in British Columbia, could use some cheer itself. A pioneer in the clear beverage craze of the early 1990s, CC saw its sales go flat when diet-conscious consumers found that its natural-looking soft drinks still had plenty of calories. Orbitz, launched last May, has so far landed in the U.S. on the East and West coasts. The company intends to ship nearly 1 million cases (price: $1.29 a bottle) in its first year, some four times more than originally planned. A lot of adults must be nauseated...
...many masters. "I've got a number of constituencies: the customers, the communities in which we do business, and I've got the shareholders." And some shareholders remember the boom-boom 1980s, when newspaper profit margins routinely approached 20%. Cold reality hit along with the recession in the early 1990s: retailing, then retail advertising, then newspapers dependent on such advertising suffered, and profits fell. Ridder insists that the financial pressures on all papers tend to be cyclical and that in fact Knight-Ridder has recently upped the percentage of revenue it spends in the newsroom. Journalists who complain about cost...