Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...easy Internet ad dollars of the late 1990s enticed newspapers and magazines to put all of their content, plus a whole lot of blogs and whistles, onto their websites for free. But the bulk of the ad dollars has ended up flowing to groups that did not actually create much content but instead piggybacked on it: search engines, portals and some aggregators...
Several GM board members have served since the late 1990s, so they have seen enough of the history of the car industry to know that oil does not stay cheap forever. Two of the longer serving members on the Ford board are members of the founding family. They could hardly have missed the lessons of the early 1970s oil crisis...
Lyudinovo is no stranger to unemployment: it suffered a bad bout in the early 1990s, when several of the town's factories closed and 4,000 workers lost their jobs. But by October, after a run of good years, the number of unemployed people had fallen to just 320. That number doubled in November, and for this year, all bets are off. "This is just the beginning," says Pronin, the newspaper editor, with worry...
...with the rise of more confrontational styles of protest in the 1960s came doubts about the NAACP's comparatively passive legislative and judicial tactics. Membership declined through the 1990s, when executive turmoil and near bankruptcy led some to question whether the organization would even reach its 100th anniversary. It will, on Feb. 12, just weeks after the swearing-in of the nation's first African-American President, who began his political career in Springfield. Could there be a better birthday present...
...President Bill Clinton's troubleshooter in the Balkans in the 1990s, Holbrooke handled one tough assignment after another. But his present one is even harder. "Pakistan is where some of the world's biggest problems come together--international terrorism, the nuclear threat, the question of democracy in the Muslim world, drugs," says Bruce Riedel, a Brookings Institution expert who advised the Obama campaign on South Asia. "On top of that, it is central to winning the war in Afghanistan...