Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview with TIME last week, Woolsey vowed to shrink intelligence spending "prudently," but complained that Congress has doubled the Administration's proposed cuts, from $7 billion to $14 billion, through 1997. During the 1990s, the cuts will slice 1 of every 4 positions from the U.S. intelligence payroll. "The intelligence community and the CIA will be -- by the end of the decade -- down to about the size it was in the Carter Administration," Woolsey says. The man who ran the agency back then, however, doesn't see that as a problem. "I don't think we were shorthanded...
...jacked-up charges have indeed helped banks rebound from the late 1980s and early 1990s, when sour real estate loans severely depressed industry earnings. Bank profits reached a record $43.4 billion last year, easily topping the previous peak of $32.1 billion in 1992, at least in part because of banks' growing reliance on service charges for income. Fees rose from just under 25% of banking income in 1984 to nearly one-third in 1992, according to the Consumer Federation of America. On top of that, lenders have enriched themselves by keeping a large spread between the cost they pay depositors...
...muddiness of language...needs to be clarified from a 1990s perspective," he adds...
...Chronicle of Higher Education reports that a glut of academic jobs expected to surface in the 1990s has not materialized...
...understand what makes the descendants of the Jeep the hottest vehicles of the 1990s, consider this fact: one of Chrysler's biggest challenges four years ago was to design the Grand Cherokee so the CD player wouldn't skip when going over rocks...