Word: 1990s
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...flurry of private-equity players are turning to IPOs to capture what they believe could be the biggest buying bonanza of troubled real estate assets since the early 1990s...
...Scientists first hit on zinc's effectiveness in the early 1990s, when researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, Md., gave children in New Delhi a daily dose of syrup containing 20 mg of zinc. The rate of diarrhea dropped dramatically. "Nobody believed the results," Fontaine says. "No one had an explanation why zinc worked." Because ORT had already proved effective in the fight against diarrhea, though, aid organizations and researchers shifted their focus elsewhere - particularly to the disastrous spread of AIDS. The delay, the WHO's Fontaine says, cost the effort "at least...
Cash-for-clunkers programs were first instituted at the state level in the early 1990s as a way to reduce automobile emissions. In a column in the New York Times last summer, Blinder suggested adapting these efforts into a national stimulus program. Then several European countries beat the U.S. to the punch...
...1990s, people discovered goat cheese. In the early 2000s, high-end restaurants started offering cheese plates. What do you see as the next big cheese trend? Cheese is something people are much more interested in and knowledgeable about than they were 20 years ago. But people are still pretty limited. They know Swiss, cheddar, goat cheese, blue cheese, brie - and that's about it. But they keep learning. It's like what happened with wine. Fifty years ago, Americans didn't drink any wine. Then they discovered European wines. Then people started trying to make wine in California. Now people...
...true, we're in a recession, and nearly 1 in 10 workers is unemployed. There are plenty of people willing to work for less money. But in other recent recessions salary growth hasn't slowed this much. Going back to the early 1990s, base salaries never increased by less than 3.4% a year, according to Hewitt, which polled 1,156 large companies to get its latest data. Companies desperate to slash costs are turning to worker salaries more deliberately than they have in the past. Some 48% of companies have frozen salaries this year, compared to just 2% last year...