1990s: Commerce
In the 1990s, commerce became e-commerce and the nation was gripped in dot-com fever. The nation's economy had started off the decade in a slump. By the mid-1990s, however, the ...
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Optimism and Empowerment.
As the century drew to a close, the potential for human invention and understanding appeared boundless. Scientific understanding expanded daily, from the fundamental buildin...
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A Religious People.
In the 1990s Americans continued to identify themselves by their religious belief. As in past decades, Protestants and Catholics dominated the religious landscape; Jews remained...
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Transition.
The decade of the 1990s was a period of rapid change in media fueled by advances in technology, the continued merging of companies, and the explosion of"trash" media. Developmen...
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Extremes and Contradictions.
The 1990s was a decade of extremes and contradictions. Americans built bigger and more-elaborate homes and drove more-expensive automobiles, but then worked longer hours ...
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Law and Society.
In the 1990s public concern over various social and political issues was manifested in new legislation, litigation, and court decisions. Attention was focused on crime rates, the acc...
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Closing the Century.
A Decade of Change.
New World Order.
Simmering Conflicts.
Gulf War.
Clinton Presidency.
Scandals and Impeachment.
All Politics Are Local.
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Setting a New Direction.
Several major trends in style in the 1990s were established almost from the start of the decade. Men's wear and women's wear designers created softer, less constructed clothe...
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Introduction.
"The business of America is business," quipped President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. Not even "Silent Cal," however, could have predicted what happened to business...
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The Short Century.
The decade of the 1990s ended with a party. As the clock struck midnight on 31 December 1999 people around the world welcomed a new millennium that only the dreariest of pedants no...
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A 51-year-old man told his daughter that he killed her mother, leading authorities to charge him with the 1990 killing, police said.Prosecutors on Friday charged Rodney Boesel of Gary with murder i...
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Minnesota officials were warned as early as 1990 that the bridge that plummeted into the Mississippi River was "structurally deficient," yet they relied on a strategy of patchwork fixes and stepped...
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London (dpa) - Thirteen people have died in Britain in what has
been termed the "killer storm" that left a trail of damage and
destruction expected to result in unprecedente...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. death rates from heart
disease and stroke have fallen by about a one-fourth since the
end of the 1990s thanks to improvements in medical treatment,
the American Heart A...
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Global carbon dioxide emissions from 2000 to 2004 increased more
than three times from in the 1990s in terms of the annual rate, a
group of international researchers said recently in an analy...
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Japan's greenhouse gas emissions totaled 1,341 million tons in
fiscal 2006, which ended in March this year, or 6.4 percent above the
1990 levels, the Environment Ministry said Monday in a pre...
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Women are dying from complicated pregnancies and childbirth at almost the same rate they were in 1990, and the vast majority of deaths are occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, a report s...
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Paris/Algiers (dpa) - It was a typical weekday morning in the
Algerian capital Algiers - traffic was moving briskly on the Avenue
of December 11, 1960, on this December 11, ...
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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has settled a long-running antitrust lawsuit filed by copper companies who claimed the bank's predecessor conspired with a Japanese trading house to manipulate the coppe...
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1990s: Commerce
America 1990-1999: Science and Technology
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