Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Musically, Quasi take seemingly mundane pop influences (The Beatles, The Carpenters, The Monkees) and feed them through a blender of late '90s noise. Without a guitar on the majority of their songs, Quasi focus on the interplay between the roxichord (Coomes' organ-like instrument) and drums. What they lack in musical accompaniment, they make up for with anger and volume. During "Our Happiness is Guaranteed," Janet Weiss pounds out drumbeats that come close to knocking her off her own stoo, while Coomes climbs on top of his keyboard and takes a few moments to beat it senseless in a furious...
...decided to accept the full athletic scholarship from UNC, a school that had already won two NCAA championships in the '90s...
...District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson delivered a blow to the Microsoft Corporation in the form of a 207-page finding of fact. Jackson concluded that since the early '90s, Microsoft has stifled innovation, reduced competition and hurt consumers. Although not a final verdict in the nearly year-long antitrust case filed by the U.S. government--that will be delivered within a few weeks unless the parties negotiate a settlement--the findings clearly side with the government by declaring Microsoft a monopoly in the operating systems market and rebuking all of Microsoft's claims to the contrary...
...analysis of admittedly spotty temperature records indicates that the world's average temperature has gone up about 0.5[degree]C (1[degree]F) in the past century, with the '90s being the hottest decade in recent history. This fact is quoted widely in the scientific community, although there are nagging doubts even among researchers. Recent satellite records, using different kinds of instrumentation, fail to show a warming trend...
What is it about young adulthood that turns people on to smoking? The intoxicating freedom? The feeling of invincibility? The looming prospect of lung cancer? It may be none of the above, but according to a study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control, something is turning '90s college-age adults into smokers at a higher rate than their '80s counterparts. Despite success in some population groups, adult smoking rates in the 1990s have remained essentially static, thanks to large numbers of 18-to-24-year-olds who are picking up the habit. Between 1965 and 1990, the percentage...