Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crusade to prod his fellow students toward the progressivism their parents exhibited in the 1960s and 70s, Hennefeld may be fighting an uphill battle against 90s student apathy. But he and the members of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM), the activist group he founded at Harvard, think the fight is worth the trouble...
...late-'90s rock musical Rent, with its theme of pre-millennial angst, was written in that crescendo of intensity. It asks in its most famous refrain how best to measure time--"in daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee?" Later in the musical, the reason for measuring is articulated: "You're living in America at the end of the millennium...where it's like the Twilight Zone...
That focus involved raising interest rates in the early '90s which, in tandem with the economic tensions caused by the Persian Gulf War, sent the nation into a recession which some say cost President George Bush the 1992 election...
...question Rex Harrison might ask of these super-connected '90s: Why can?t a cell phone be more like a land line? Well, the FCC is working on it, proposing new rules Thursday that would allow wireless service carriers to charge only the caller for calls, the way they do with traditional service, where simply answering the phone doesn?t cost you. It makes sense, not only karmically but commercially: By taking away one of the last financial stigmas surrounding the already ubiquitous cell phone -- Why the heck should I pay when someone else calls me? -- the wireless as bona...
...temperatures climbed well into the 90s, seniors packed Memorial Church--filing in took more than 15 minutes--while their families and friends listened from Tercentenary Theater...