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Though he appeared on CBS and ABC as a commentator while he was Washington bureau chief for the San Francisco Examiner, Matthews made the jump to TV host amidst the cable news explosion of the mid-1990s. He joined the then-seven-year-old CNBC in 1995, while Fox News and MSNBC were still in development...
Baby boomers seem to be particularly eager to start a challenging new life abroad. The International Executive Service Corps (I.E.S.C.), which matches executives with business-development work abroad, has watched the average age of its participants drop from 68 in the mid-1990s to about 53. Other organizations, like WorldTeach, report increased interest from the retired population...
...Post reported last Wednesday, “AIDS prevalence fell for the 12th consecutive year. In the capital city, Kampala, the rate is 8 percent, compared with 30 percent a decade ago.” True, condoms became a greater part of Kampala’s approach in the mid-1990s, but this was after the HIV rate had already started to drop precipitously...
...former chief executive and two senior officials of France's Elf Aquitaine - now part of Total - were convicted in Paris, all for separate corruption-related offenses. Unlike consumer-products companies such as Nike, which moved relatively quickly to deal with allegations of unethical labor practices in the mid-1990s, Big Oil long resisted calls to clean up its act. BP and Shell were the first to change. In Shell's case, the firm was shaken by two scandals in quick succession: the execution in 1995 of Nigerian poet Ken Saro-Wiwa, who vigorously contested Shell's oil operations in Nigeria...
...born of a $50 million gift given in 1987 by Walt Disney's widow Lillian. The radically curvy building opened six years late and at more than twice its original $110 million price tag because disagreements over Gehry's unorthodox design, coupled with California's economic woes (the mid-1990s version), slowed construction...