Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, millions of Americans have spent the early 1990s adjusting to constrained times and now feel they can afford to crack open their wallets and % pocketbooks in 1994. Many consumers who still have their jobs see themselves as "survivors" of one of the worst upheavals ever seen in the work force, the TIME economists said. Moreover, "American workers have adapted to the idea that they're not going to have the same job forever," said labor economist Audrey Freedman, who runs a New York City-based management consulting firm. They have learned to accept the inevitable job shifts, Freedman noted...
...Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) investigated whether the HSTO-MCI lock on student service is illegal, according to Jol A. Silversmith '94, the group's former director. Federal law allows private telephone systems to restrict subscribers to a single carrier through the late 1990s, Silversmith says...
There's plenty of interest here, but Derek Jarman's version does away with most of it almost from the first. The problem: the homoeroticism that is suggested by Marlowe's play is here sketched immediately in broad, unambiguous, 1990s strokes, upstaging the play's own subtleties of language. The filmmakers, clearly delighted with the possibilities of anachronistic dress, sets, and props, can't stop sprinkling them on, even when they're pointless and distracting. Like the abrupt cuts from scene to scene, these anachronisms are jarring and seem altogether a little too precious: a toy robot is set adrift...
...process of assimilation, while perhaps a bit more hesitant and stressful than at times in the past, still marches on. It might skip a generation, revealing itself eventually, for instance, in the pure Valleyspeak ; of a young Chinese Californian. More often than ever before, though, assimilation in the 1990s arrives through the ultimate cultural immersion of interethnic marriage. In today's diverse America, such marriages are occurring at triple the rate of two decades...
...transformation of Afro-Am represents the culmination of a commitment made by former President Derek C. Bok and former acting dean of the faculty Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky after repeated protests by students in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Once spurred to action by vocal and committed undergraduates, Bok and Rosovsky managed to lure DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. away from Duke with a crucial dedication to future tenure appointments...