Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...late 1990s and early part of this decade, a succession of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) chairmen fought to raise the agency's insurance limits and its clout. Congresses repeatedly said no. Employment at the FDIC shrank to 4,500 staffers, from about 23,000 in the early 1990s. Some even argued that the agency's insurance fund should be abolished altogether...
...Seven years and billions of dollars have brought Afghanistan no closer to the peaceful democracy that George W. Bush promised at the beginning of the war. Instead, the country more closely resembles the warlord-led kleptocracy of the 1990s that led to the rise of the Taliban in the first place. Corruption is the defining characteristic of the central government, and President Hamid Karzai is largely seen as an American puppet unable to rein in the excesses of government ministers or even his own family. And he's not even a good puppet - Karzai routinely and publicly berates his foreign...
...Deflation may not have had a bad name until it hit the Japanese economy in the early 1990s. The financial activity in the Asian nation went into a long hibernation. The pace of commerce slowed to a point which had not been seen in the modern history of the country...
...ability to hire street workers with criminal backgrounds will hopefully bring a new and exciting energy to the street worker program. In the 1990s, after Boston suffered a high of 151 murders in a year, an initiative similar to StreetSafe Boston was able to achieve a glorious reduction in crime now referred to as the Boston Miracle. The street workers of this time were often former gang members or criminal offenders who were able to use their street credibility to persuade violent and potentially violent youth to choose a peaceful path...
...place since John F. Kennedy’s administration, the regime’s economic decisions have not created tangible benefits beyond healthcare and literacy. Poverty remains widespread, education limited, and free speech censored; barges still head from Havana to Miami, not the other way around. After the 1990s reforms, Cuba has a dual economy where those who cannot access currency convertible into U.S. dollars cannot afford basic necessities. As a result, incentives are so perverted that one can see women with Ph.Ds driving 1960s vintage cabs in Havana because that is the only way to afford toothpaste and shampoo...