Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1990s, the ideal body-type was "at least 5'9", preferably 5'10", with an ideal weight of around 110, she said...
...detect the life he believed existed on Mars. He never found it, but in 1930 Clyde Tombaugh, then an assistant at Lowell Observatory and now a professor emeritus at New Mexico State University, found Pluto. It was the last planet that would be discovered until the 1990s...
Hasselbach expanded his activities in post-Wall Berlin, where he organized attacks on rival anarchist gangs and foreign residents. In the early 1990s--about the same time he began questioning his choice of careers--Hasselbach found what he calls a new "father figure." He was a French-based German filmmaker who, in the course of making a documentary titled Profession Neo-Nazi, inspired the now weary 25-year-old Hasselbach to renounce his past...
...executing the foreign policy of the U.S. If that is not the business of the Federal Government, what is? In Bosnia, however, the U.S. has a problem: there is one particular aspect of its mission that is crucial but that it is loath to carry out. So the very 1990s solution is likely to be hiring a private company to do the job instead...
...Broken Windows theory." Sure enough, as arrests for small offenses rocketed, New York's streets became notably more civil. Then Maple, who has been Bratton's aide-de-camp and crime strategist since Bratton was slashing subway crime as New York's Transit Police chief in the early 1990s, proposed an intriguing corollary to the theory...