Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dollar chemical producer, J. Peter Grace, 73, has been overseeing a major restructuring of the company and shows no signs of stepping down. Robert W. Woodruff, longtime chairman of Coca-Cola, "retired" in 1955 but remained in control of the company for an additional 25 years, well into his 90s...
Rapidly rising medical costs will prompt health care providers and consumers to become more cost conscious, which will cause major changes in the provision of health care in the 1990s, a group of Harvard experts predicted yesterday at a symposium entitled "Health Care: Opportunities and Burdens for the '90s...
...first memory is of the brightness of light, light all around," the painter wrote as she was approaching her 90s. She had been nine months old, sitting among white pillows outside her parents' farmhouse in the wheat country near Sun Prairie, Wis.; the Civil War had ended less than 25 years before, the Ford was not invented, and Picasso was six. That infant memory of brightness would irradiate her work for the best part of a century, leaving no doubt, when Georgia O'Keeffe died last week in Santa Fe at the age of 98, that one of the great...
Another likely leader for the '90s is Wang Zhaoguo, 44, director of the Communist Party's general office. His story is almost a Chinese version of a Horatio Alger tale. In 1980 Wang, who was then a deputy factory director, was assigned to take Deng on an inspection tour of Hubei province's No. 2 automobile plant. The bespectacled technician made such a good impression on Deng that he was promptly transferred to Peking. Two years later, Wang was elevated to the Central Committee...
...definitely a sport of the '80s and '90s," Clews said. "Because of the cross training, you have a lot fewer injury problems, a lot less wear and tear on the muscles and joints...