Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year when the long-term market average is only 11%. And buying Wal-Mart just because the parking lot is full has become a quaint cliche. It might have worked for Peter Lynch in the '80s. But the Beardstown batch tried it in the '90s and discovered yet another recipe--the one for crow...
...tiny proportion of office come-ons result in harassment complaints; of those that do, just 9% end up in formal proceedings, whereas 38% of relationships that start on the job survive into the long term. The huge surge in sexual-harassment cases that took place in the early '90s has slowed. Such cases are still being filed at the rate of 15,500 a year--some 60 new cases every working day--compared with 6,900 in 1991, but the number hasn't changed much for three years. A recent survey of human-resources managers found that...
...impetus for the new recordings and the series of films, collectively titled Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach, came in the early '90s, when Ma got to musing about the extramusical implications of Bach's work. With the exception of the collaboration with Egoyan on the fourth suite--a fractured but more or less conventional narrative with an enigmatic power similar to the Bach--each film is split in two, documenting the collaborative process as well as its result. The pairing with choreographer Morris (for the third suite) is particularly inspired. Others are more frustrating, with Ma either not quite...
...matter-of-fact indictments of pretense and societal hang-ups concerning intellect and sex. Listening to these songs is a pleasure. The title track, "Remember to Breathe" ranks as the best song on the album. It may stand as one of the best twenty-something anthems of the '90s...
While the younger breed wears striped clothing effortlessly, those of us who have been sporting plaid fashions since the early '90s may find the switch to stripes a tough transition to make. We're used to the earnest complexity of the tartan and the understated intricacy of black-watch. It's not easy to leave behind the gridded blues, greens, reds and yellows for the linear turquoise and black...