Word: 1990s
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That demographic influence extends inside the house too. The great room that first caught on in the early 1990s is undergoing a revival - a large, undelineated family room-breakfast nook-kitchen combination meshes well with attitudes of casualness and flexibility. For years, the bell has been tolling for the formal living room, and that trend is accelerating...
...prescribe heroin for a small number of hard-to-treat patients, but in the 1970s and 1980s doctors became reluctant to prescribe doses high enough to actually work, fearing patients would sell them on the black market. "It was a lose-lose situation," says Strang. Then, in the early 1990s, researchers from Switzerland, which was witnessing a dizzying spike in heroin use, came knocking. "They saw what we were doing and said, 'We can do better,' " Strang says. (See pictures of cannabis culture...
...practice has its defenders, and Straus himself admits, with chagrin in his voice, that he spanked his own son. In the 1990s, the American Academy of Pediatrics underwent a bitter fight before finally declaring in 1998 that "corporal punishment is of limited effectiveness and has potentially deleterious side effects...
...Engineered a coalition of groups that successfully prevented the New England Patriots from moving their stadium from Foxboro, Mass., to Hartford, Conn., in the late 1990s...
...definitely shooting for an immersive feel,” said Lotman. Appropriately, the book is large in size, filled primarily with photos and a colorful arrangement of descriptive text. It is divided into separate sections, one for each decade ranging from the 1950s to the 1990s and beyond. Craig A. Lambert ’69, who is reviewing the book for Harvard Magazine, said he was impressed by the “prodigious amount of research” that went into producing the elaborate volume. “It’s a wonderful book; he’s gotten...