Word: 1990s
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...encourage conservation and established subsidies and standards to support more efficient buildings. "It all started out without any regard for the climate or the environment," says Svend Auken, the former head of Denmark's opposition Social Democrat party and the architect of the country's environmental policies in the 1990s. "But today there's a consensus that we need to build out renewable power...
...turning that research into reality was not just generous government aid, but the fact that Denmark stayed with it. While countries like the U.S. let tax credits for renewable energy wax and wane, smothering infant green industries in the crib, Denmark looks to the long term. In the 1990s, the government inaugurated tariffs that required utilities to offer 10-year fixed-rate contracts for wind power. That sort of security led to a rapid expansion of wind power at home - the country has more than 5,200 turbines producing in excess of 3,100 MW of electricity - and helped firms...
...times like these, it is disheartening that the current Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form poses a major barrier to many potential applicants who need financial aid the most. With more than 100 questions, the current form—which, ironically enough, was created in the early 1990s in an effort to streamline the financial-aid process—seems excessive and inefficiently constructed. Its length and complexity are so daunting that many have been driven to use paid professionals just to fill out the form. Everyone from Congress to President Obama has complained about FAFSA?...
...outskirts of Lahore, Nawaz Sharif raised the political temperature with a fiery attack on Zardari. "The nation should rise against this unconstitutional decision and this villainous act of Zardari," he said, his face swollen with rage. In a sign that the country was returning to the politics of the 1990s - a period when four civilian governments collapsed in the span of a decade - the former Prime Minister resurrected accusations of corruption. "Where are those millions of dollars?" Sharif asked in reference to allegations that Zardari salted away the spoils of power during the two times his late wife...
...largely from the drug lords' determination to erase extradition from the law books, has since been reined in. As for deterrence, even supporters of extradition acknowledge that fallen drug bosses are simply replaced by their ambitious underlings. "We oversold it," concedes Myles Frechette, who as U.S. ambassador in the 1990s pressured Colombian officials to reinstate extradition after it had been banned by the 1991 Constitution. (It would be restored by a constitutional amendment.) "We said we'd get the kingpins and that'll wrap up the whole organization. But that was never the case...