Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After equal rights legislation, the movements' raisons d'ltre were spent and, for reasons of power instead of justice, they have turned their focus onto their current, far more cynical agenda. Subsequently, their moral authority has mostly disintegrated. And dominating every facet of '90s-style American politics is an across-the-boards cynicism about government exhibited by citizens regardless of party affiliation...
Chris Wink views fractals as the only suitable metaphor for life in the '90s, because "they're loaded with paradox, because everything's contradictory...the '60s thought the '50s were the one wrong way, and now we have the one counterway of the '60s. But, for the '90s, there...
This country needs a muscular form of liberalism that is more in touch with the militant spirit of the '60s than the compromising spirit of the '90s. But this leadership will probably have to come from the streets and the masses rather than the weaklings in Washington. And new liberal leadership, while recognizing America's class problems, cannot return to the tired ideas of Marx...
...over again, with a '90s existentially angst-ridden twist," said John A. E. Pottow '93, a second year student at the Law School...
Seems Aldrich Ames is but a starting point for CIA housecleaning. An internal CIA report of its operations released to Congress today contains shocking revelations that the agency's Soviet operation during the 1980s and early '90s was heavily infiltrated by double agents -- far more so than previously thought. Worse, the CIA developed certain strategies based on reports issued by KGB infiltrators. That resulted in millions of dollars wasted to alter military operations in response to false information. While former CIA chief Robert Gates has denied reports that CIA Director John Deutch is planning to reprimand some 12 past...