Word: 90s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
OBAMA: "Part of the reason that Republicans are obsessed with you, Hillary, is because [it's] a fight they're very comfortable having. It's the fight we've been through since the '90s...
...only material for a tragedy in the real world, rather than a comedy on Fox. After the Bush administration disengaged almost completely from Latin America following 9/11, the power vacuum was swiftly filled with leaders that grew up during the age of military juntas. In the ’90s, the neo-liberal agenda of fiscal responsibility and privatization failed, tainted by endemic corruption and the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) unsuccessful recipes for growth. At this point, any marketing expert would have guessed what the Latin American public wanted to hear.It was only a matter of time...
...Come the fall, and the studios think filmgoers are in a gentler mood. So we get the more traditional mode of movie romance - the kind Hollywood specialized in for ages before it went out of style in the 90s - but which now might be called chick comedy. The protagonist is still a man (the moguls seeming to believe that no actress draw the big crowds), but romantic connection is the goal. And the tone is on the soft side. Chick comedy is about men compromising: trying to be nice, keeping secrets, coping with frustration and embarrassment, finding the middle...
...rich, in contrast to the insipid mixes of water and sugar that pass for cocoa at other establishments. Finally, the Barker Center Café offers free coffee in the early hours of the morning and the kind companionship of super-cashier Dottie all day. The ’90s soundtrack cannot be beat, either. But we generally recommend going elsewhere. —Staff writers Aliza H. Aufrichtig and Marianne F. Kaletzky can be reached at aufricht@fas.harvard.edu and kaletzky@fas.harvard.edu...
...Although Turkey has sent troops on similar missions in northern Iraq on up to two dozen previous occasions during the 1980s and 90s, this would be the first such incursion since U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 and took responsibility for security in Iraq...