Word: 1990s
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...1990s, Cuban co-founded the company that would become Broadcast.com, which started as a web site to access live sports games online. The company went on to broadcast other content - including Bill Clinton's testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair and a Victoria's Secret fashion show. Cuban and his partner took Broadcast.com public and sold it to Yahoo! in 1999 for $5.7 billion in stock...
...engineering professor Frederick H. Abernathy, who had never previously addressed the Faculty during Summers’ tenure, questioned the University president’s involvement in a national scandal that implicated one of Summers’ close friends and colleagues in Harvard’s economics department.In the early 1990s, Andrei Shleifer had been the Russian project director for the Harvard Institute for International Development, which received funding from the U.S. State Department’s Agency for International Development to advise the former communist country as it moved toward economic privatization. During his time advising the Russian government, Shleifer...
...vaccine, along with multiple false hopes in the search for a cure, have caused many in the HIV activism community to view Huetter's experiment warily. For many AIDS activists, bone-marrow transplantation is a loaded procedure that evokes a traumatic past: before antivirals were widely introduced in the 1990s, it was one of the aggressive and often fatal procedures doctors tried in their desperate effort to halt the epidemic; some of these transplants even used marrow harvested from baboons...
...gave general motors cheers for the Chevy Volt, a car still in the design phase. Instead, the company deserves jeers for not reintroducing the EV1, the electric vehicle it launched in the 1990s and canceled on the ground that it was unprofitable. The car worked then, so it should work better now, considering the improvements in battery technology over the last decade. Let's get big business making cars the customers want to buy. Peter Miller, Seattle...
...Starting in the 1990s, average Americans began deciding that the conservative economic agenda was a bit like the liberal cultural agenda of the 1960s: less liberating than frightening. When the Gingrich Republicans tried to slash Medicare, the public turned on them en masse. A decade later, when George W. Bush tried to partially privatize Social Security, Americans rebelled once again. In 2005 a Pew Research Center survey identified a new group of voters that it called "pro-government conservatives." They were culturally conservative and hawkish on foreign policy, and they overwhelmingly supported Bush in 2004. But by large majorities, they...