Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Times Mirror Co. is having it particularly rough. Its largest paper, the Los Angeles Times, has suffered through the hard economic times and weak advertising climate that have gripped Southern California since the early 1990s. And New York Newsday, one of four major papers in a city that many say can profitably support only two, had been gushing red ink -- as much as $100 million since its founding a decade ago. Times Mirror's profit margin has been 9% to 10%, well below the industry average. And Times Mirror stock has floundered, falling from $53 a share...
...presidency anyone wed to a foreigner, such as Suu Kyi, who is married to British academic Michael Aris. slorc's current leader, Senior General Than Shwe, has improved the image of the junta that killed more than 3,000 student protesters in the late 1980s and early 1990s, changed the country's name to Myanmar and nullified the general election of May 1990 in which Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy routed the pro-government party...
...schizophrenia and traumatic brain damage -- research projects have multiplied dramatically. Over the past several years, Johns Hopkins has launched the Zanvyl Kreiger Mind/Brain Institute and Harvard has created the Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative. And at the urging of the National Institute of Mental Health and other organizations, President Bush declared the 1990s the Decade of the Brain...
...during the Vietnam period, he said it was merely a sign that he had been "alive and in graduate school in that era." Right. And smoking crack or having a child out of wedlock is merely a sign that you're alive and in the inner city in the 1990s...
...access is fast becoming the cool perk of the 1990s, and probably beyond. Those of us who choose more altruistic--and probably lower-paying--pursuits will almost certainly shell out some 'Net funds to save money on communication in general, and they'll probably help press local governments to fund' Net access for the greater community...