Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...1990s, after all, were a decade when first liberals, then conservatives, scored thrilling political victories, only to find those victories strikingly irrelevant to society at large. For 12 long years, Democrats watched Ronald Reagan and George Bush hack at the government safety net they held dear. Finally, in 1992, the party wrenched itself from its stupor, shook off its dead weight and found a winner. But when the Clintonites showed up for work, sleeves rolled up and ready to reverse years of trickle-down social policy, they received some bad news. In the post-cold war world, their new Wall...
...organization vowing to pass legislation that would restrict the practice [of abortion] or volunteer at a local crisis pregnancy center." Their implied answer is clearly the latter. And there is mounting evidence that even within the Christian right, that perspective is winning the day. In the late 1990s, the hyperpolitical Christian Coalition went into steep decline, while Promise Keepers, an organization that believes many of the same things but shuns political action as the route to achieve them, has grown...
...early 1990s, about 15 people were robbed on the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side every week. Thugs assaulted 200 residents every year. People whose families had immigrated to the neighborhood decades before were moving away in fear...
...know young people commit more crimes than older folks, so the baby boomers' grandchildren should stop playing Sega and start menacing the rest of us any day now. But that indicator too is unreliable. Many of these "echo boom" youngsters reached their teens during the 1990s, yet crime still plummeted. Experts say the good economy gave these kids something to do (even if it was just taking orders at McDonald's instead of robbing it). More important, the decline of crack removed a crime-soaked job opportunity...
...other, we males and females--madly, sporadically, intermittently, to be sure--but at least enough to keep us pair bonding furiously, even when there's no obvious hardheaded reason to do so. Hence, despite predictions of the imminent "breakdown of the family," the divorce rate leveled off in the 1990s, and the average couple is still hopeful or deluded enough to invest about $20,000 in their first wedding. True, fewer people are marrying: 88% of Americans have married at least once, down from 94% in 1988. But the difference is largely made up by couples who set up housekeeping...