Word: 1990s
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Only someone with particular tenacity would remain a communist in Russia throughout the 1990s and then manage to maneuver the party back to the brink of power. The son of village schoolteachers in southwestern Russia, Zyuganov began his career as a full-time party worker in 1967. He was serving as a deputy chief of the ideology department of the Soviet Central Committee in 1990 when he helped found a separate Russian Communist Party. It was created to oppose the reformist course of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led by Mikhail Gorbachev. Zyuganov proudly says he served...
...overall rolls, as more uninsured Americans become aware of these services and the baby-boom generation ages. This expansion will be accompanied by an increase in the very old. The population age 85 and over, 20% of whom now live in nursing homes, will rise 50% during the 1990s. A patient's annual nursing-home care can run to $35,000; a poor child's overall health-care bill, by contrast, costs Medicaid just...
...books, Huggins, 58, is the maestro of mercury removal. About 2,000 Americans, many desperately ill, have visited the Huggins Diagnostic Center, where a team of five dentists pulled out fillings in two custom-made "bubble operatories" designed to minimize exposure to toxins. At its peak, in the early 1990s, the center treated 32 patients a month, subjecting them to intensive two-week therapies and charging as much as $8,500 a mouth...
...issues such as the sexual revolution, civil rights and the war in Vietnam to rally for. The spirit found in journalism and in the demonstrators at that time was inspiring, overwhelming and worthy of news. I have found it hard to equate anything of the sort happening in the 1990s with the exciting and purposeful causes of 20 years ago. Public service at Harvard and in the world at large can very well be that issue, that principle which moves us, the future, to motivate...
...dream town of the 1990s doesn't need Walt's domes, skyscrapers or monorails. By offering good schools, clean streets and grass around the edges, Disney is creating a fantasy world so far removed from common experience that people are amazed at the prospect...