Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yale will survive Schmidt's absence, but questions will remain about his departure. No one besides Schmidt will know the real reason the administrator quit Yale. But in coming to the decision, the difficult economics of higher education in the 1990s likely crossed his mind...
...unthinkable today. Why is that? People say we have lost the economic optimism and national self- confidence of the 1960s. But the 1980s were also a period of national economic optimism, yet that is when the War on Poverty was officially declared unwinnable. And even the sad-sack 1990s are objectively richer than the 1960s. The difference must be a matter of good intentions...
...moral of the Seven Fat Years is that economic growth counts," he writes. But the rising tide of '80s-style growth failed to lift all boats as advertised: the rich got bigger yachts, the middle class foundered, and many of the poor went under. The task for the 1990s will be to move beyond the excesses and inequities of the debt decade rather than strive to return to a Golden Age that never existed...
...execution is simpler. A handful favor the headsman's ax or the even more ancient practice of stoning to death. The rest employ either the rope or the bullet, both of which have fallen into near total disuse in the U.S. Outside the U.S., capital punishment in the 1990s is usually associated with underdevelopment or lack of democracy, usually both. The death penalty no longer exists in any European Community country. Most of the nations of the former Soviet bloc have abolished it, and the rest are considering doing so. Of the 2,086 executions Amnesty International tracked...
...shuttle's cargo bay, strap a booster rocket onto it and send it on its way. Then four of them will suit up and go outside to try out construction techniques that will be used on the U.S. space station, Freedom, scheduled to be built by the late 1990s. They will also test the "astrorope," a device astronauts could use to save themselves if they start to float off into space...