Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...financial services from 14% to 18%. Since the 1980s the Dow keepers have been scrambling to reflect such developments. So in the '80s American Express and McDonald's were added to the Dow as the likes of Johns-Manville and Owens-Illinois vanished. The early '90s saw Disney and J.P. Morgan added, while Navistar and USX got the boot. With the latest changes, which take effect this week, the Dow has morphed further from its heavy-industry roots: Woolworth, Westinghouse Electric, Bethlehem Steel and Texaco are being replaced by Wal-Mart Stores, Travelers, Johnson & Johnson and Hewlett-Packard...
...presence of independent films has finally reached the crescendo we have anticipated throughout the 90s. Rather than a single My Left Foot or The Crying Game to represent the Little Film, this year's oddball is Jerry Maguire, the only Hollywood project to earn a slot in the Picture race. The somnambulists who voted in featherweight tripe like Scent of a Woman and Field of Dreams are finally hibernating where they belong. As Shakespeare once apostrophized, "Studios, studios, where art thou, studios...
...even in the leanest machine, it's hard to avoid such accoutrements of the '90s as logo-design consultants, glossy blue press packets and focus groups that mall-test key words to see which ones grab people's attention. Deaver's p.r. firm, Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, is billing its services at a 20% discount; Deaver is donating his. Powell is not going to put up with the kind of waste made notorious by charity balls and the United Way scandal, in which money was spent to raise more money and lavished on salary and perks. The two founding partners...
...Bill Gates could say, 'I was wrong about the Web,' so can you," he told Apple's leaders, urging the company to scrap Copland, its overdue operating system, partner with a Net-savvy computer maker like Sun Microsystems, and "make Apple the Net cruiser of the '90s." They ignored him. So he left. At present he spends two to three hours a day on the Internet and is hatching a plan to use it to create a new approach to computing...
...snazzier, more cleverly packaged NBC Nightly News. Creatively too, ABC's flagship newscast seems adrift, first softening the show to combat NBC, more recently retrenching a bit and trying to reassert its hard-news credentials. Good Morning America, the No. 1-rated morning show for much of the '90s, has slipped into second place, well behind NBC's Today show. Of course the network still has the indispensable Nightline, which frequently beats both Letterman and Leno in the late-night ratings; two successful prime-time magazine shows in 20/20 and PrimeTime Live; and the most impressive array of news stars...