Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Locke and Hobbes aside, most people would include "keyboard," "hard disk" and "dedicated monitor" somewhere in their answer. And in the 1990s, that's what we expect a computer to look like...
...Renaissance in black studies during the 1990s has ignited a furious competition for scholars, with many of the best-known teachers jumping from campus to campus like free agents in professional sports. Gates, for example, leaped from Yale to Cornell University in 1985, to Duke in 1990, to Harvard in 1991, after then acting dean Henry Rosovsky promised to coach him about the combative academic climate that had beleaguered his predecessors for two decades. Says Gates: "He was able to teach me where all the bodies were buried because he's the one who buried them...
Those setbacks were not isolated incidents in the supercharged stock market that has made IPOs the hottest way to raise money in the 1990s, just as junk bonds and cheap credit fueled the stock boom of a decade ago. The junk binge left the U.S. with a colossal hangover of corporate debt, and the IPO fever inspires some worries about the country's financial and economic health. Among other things, it raises the issue of whether a casino-like mentality tends to lure investors into high-risk and even dubious new issues, or tempt start-ups to race to market...
...Bryan Hehir of the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Center also downplays the perceived expansion of religious life. Hehir believes it is too soon to tell whether the 1990s can be viewed as a decade of religion...
...meant to be a waste of time, however, it is important to note that the revised schedule, including the new study period, only included 12 weeks of classes, whereas we now have 14. But let us give the benefit of the doubt to the administration of the 1990s and assume that reading period is for the benefit of the undergraduates. Does it achieve the dubiously noble goals of Harvard's forefathers...