Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pullman, 36, has been working this area since the early '90s, first for investment firm Gruntal and then in partnership with Fahnestock & Co. Last month he shook off those names and set up the Pullman Group to chase celebrity bonds in a big way and, he hopes, brand himself as the top name in this esoteric field. He and others say the bonds will ultimately extend to all sorts of intellectual property that generates a steady stream of income: patents, authors' royalties and writers' residuals from TV reruns and film libraries...
...signs that MIKE BARNICLE, Boston Globe columnist, has yet to move into the '90s: 1) after getting caught allegedly lifting jokes from George Carlin, he failed to be at all contrite; 2) he lifted jokes from George Carlin. Carlin? What year is this? That's like stealing lyrics from Pete Seeger...
...than three decades, something called the Overlap Group, a collaboration of financial-aid officials from the Ivy League and a few other top private colleges, compared notes on scholarship applicants to equalize aid offers and thereby prevent bidding wars over the best and brightest students. Then in the early '90s, the U.S. Justice Department argued that the Overlap Group was essentially engaging in price fixing and forced an end to the program. Now only the government monitors need, through its FAFSA process, and, though the colleges claim their policy is not to award scholarships purely on merit, there...
...chopped "outlaw" bike of the '60s represents, among other things, the desire to return to the raw purity of the early, "primitive" machine. On the other hand, motorcycle design in the '80s and '90s--especially in Japan--tended to enclose the machinery in baroque, forward-raked shells, bodywork that "floats" above the wheels and is loaded with sexual suggestion. Hence the argot for them: crotch rockets. What began as a proletarian vehicle (cheap transport for folks who couldn't afford a car) has turned into an expensive, deliberate body metaphor. The car may be your wife/husband, but the bike...
Parents of the '90s tend to read this 1940 story searching for dark lessons about birth parents, surrogacy and who knows what else. But small children still love it. That's because the Mayzie vs. Horton dustup affirms what they already know: real parents are people who are dedicated and unshakably there for you, day in and day out. Period. In their limited world view, the parent-child connection is not spun from DNA. Rather, it's woven with the mundane strands of everyday life, the countless gestures, large and small, that repeatedly reaffirm: I see you, I love...