Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late 1980s, when many of Harvard's senior graduate students matriculated, it was thought that a large number of professional academics would soon retire, opening up a huge job market for scholars earning their Ph.D.s in the mid-1990s...
...Most Harvard Ph.D.s pursue academic employment upon completion of their degrees. Job opportunities in many academic fields are expected to improve in anticipation of the large cohort of faculty members who will retire in the 1990s. We anticipate that students beginning Ph.D. programs in 1995 will enter favorable job markets," the bulletin reads...
...fourth floor of Garden Street was a veritable cornucopia of diversity. A word with powerful positive associations, "diversity" has become the buzzword of the educational establishment in the 1990s. College viewbooks use it on every page. Crimson profiles of the undergraduate houses proclaim each house "unified yet diverse, diverse yet unified." The term is invoked so frequently that it seems to have lost any real meaning. Instead, it simply functions as attractive packaging for controversial liberal programs. When President Neil L. Rudenstine wanted to defend Harvard's affirmative action policies in the wake of a heated national debate over racial...
...product-liability jury awards of the 1990s...
Then came the second period--the dissolution of the Soviet Union, capitalism's first steps. People in the West are surprised that so many Russians don't like capitalism. But there is nothing extraordinary about this. The capitalism that came to Russia at the start of the 1990s looked different from the one constructed in Europe several centuries ago. The capitalism of Holland or Switzerland was laboriously created by the industrious and thrifty bourgeois of Rotterdam or Geneva, for whom perseverance, honesty and modesty were religious commandments, acts of faith...