• Take Jim Abbott, the star major-league pitcher of the nineties, who was born without a right hand.

    NEWYORKER: Little Strangers

  • This is one reason, among many others, why the digital economy means fewer job creations than the optimistic views of the nineties led us to expect.

    FORBES: Corporate Tax 2.0: Why France and the World Need a New Tax System for the Digital Age

  • The bull market of the Nineties was fueled by rising profits, but it's getting harder and harder to make a case for long-term profitability compounding at more than 4% per annum.

    FORBES: Cracks in the Nifty Fifty

  • "Beckham was the antithesis to the godawful lad culture of the late Nineties, " GQ.co.uk fashion editor Nick Carvell told CNN.

    CNN: Beckham: The man who broke football's gay taboo?

  • By the end of the nineteen-nineties, some sixty supermax institutions had opened across the country.

    NEWYORKER: Hellhole

  • Still, it was the advent, in the mid-nineties, of the Global Positioning System, along with advances in microcomputing, that ushered in the possibility of automated unmanned flight.

    NEWYORKER: Here��s Looking at You

  • Walking into Moscone Center in San Francisco, I was reminded most of Comdex in the Nineties.

    FORBES: Tipping Point Alert

  • Like most Zeffirelli stagings of the eighties and nineties, it was a Cecil B.

    NEWYORKER: Fiasco

  • Constructing such spheres of wonder, however, proved technologically difficult, and by the mid-nineteen-nineties the field of virtual reality had largely collapsed.

    NEWYORKER: The Visionary

  • On average, in the past decade, fossil-fuel emissions grew at about three times the rate of growth in the nineteen-nineties.

    NEWYORKER: The Climate Fixers

  • Emerging from the world of penny stock operators, the company survived a cast of dubious financiers during the late eighties and early nineties: a Genovese crime family-associated broker, a Ponzi schemer and a stock swindler, whose firm inspired the movie Boiler Room, none of whose wrongdoings was related to BioReference or Grodman.

    FORBES: #17 Bio-Reference Laboratories

  • Fuel costs are roughly one third of expenses and WTI has climbed back up to the mid-nineties per barrel so the spiral of fare increases and capacity reductions will continue making travel even less tolerable than it already is.

    FORBES: Protect Your Wallet: Regulate The Airlines

  • David Cameron is expected to visit Burma this week and will be the first western leader to visit the country since it first fell foul of international sanctions in the late nineties.

    BBC: PM's Burma visit 'a bold move'

  • In the early nineties, instead of simply claiming the side of morality, as he did after ramming the Sierra, Watson began to assert legal authority for his actions.

    NEWYORKER: Neptune��s Navy

  • The dotcom bubble of the late nineteen-nineties changed his opinion.

    NEWYORKER: What Good Is Wall Street?

  • There is the tale of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, as W. and E. became, intercut with that of Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish), a wretchedly married woman living in Manhattan in the late nineteen-nineties and fixated on the myth of Mrs.

    NEWYORKER: Material Girls

  • Dr. Sarno, a retired professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine, now in his nineties, began practicing medicine in the 1950s.

    FORBES: How America's Best Pain Doctor - John Sarno - Took On The Medical Establishment and Won

  • It is true that beginning in the late nineties during the first year of the Khatami presidency there was a period of a year or so when the optimistic could believe that the forces of moderation might make substantial progress in Iran.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Next Steps in the Iran Crisis

  • Throughout the eighties and nineties, Microsoft was one of the most innovative companies in the world.

    FORBES: 3 Things Everyone Needs to Know About the Apple Antitrust Case

  • On television one night, he got into a shouting match with Yossi Beilin, an architect of the Oslo Peace Accord, in the mid-nineties, telling him that the pact with Yasir Arafat had caused the deaths of sixteen hundred Israelis in terror attacks.

    NEWYORKER: The Party Faithful

  • The Colombians embarked on a peace process with FARC in the late nineties, ceding a piece of territory the size of Switzerland.

    BBC: Ten years after the 'Colombia 3'

  • At the University of Kentucky, in the mid-nineteen-nineties, Pitino took his team to the Final Four three times and won a national championship with full-court pressure, and then rode the full-court press back to the Final Four in 2005, as the coach at the University of Louisville.

    NEWYORKER: How David Beats Goliath

  • But lest people get carried away with visions of smiling picnickers in the new green arcadias of Blairite Britain, the urban parks scheme come with a very nineties twist.

    ECONOMIST: City planning

  • This was true of Democrats in the nineteen-nineties, when Bill Clinton passed free trade, deficit reduction, and welfare reform, despite the furious objections of liberals.

    NEWYORKER: Unpopular Mandate

  • Describes how graduate student Karen Lips observed the mysterious disappearance of large numbers of local golden frogs, in the nineteen-nineties, at several locations in Panama and Costa Rica.

    NEWYORKER: The Sixth Extinction?

  • "We are where India was in the early Nineties, we have the same size of population, " said Ethiopia's Mr Zenawi.

    BBC: Davos 2012: Africa leaders urge co-operation

  • For those of us that were too young to handle electronics in the early nineties, this is a piece of videogame history that should be experienced.

    FORBES: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a Browser, For Free

  • Adelson and Olmert had been friendly since the nineteen-nineties, when Olmert was a member of the hard-line Likud Party.

    NEWYORKER: The Brass Ring

  • This documentary by Marshall Curry is centered on former activists of the Earth Liberation Front, an anti-logging group that, in the late nineties, turned from peaceful protest to direct, unlawful action in the name of social change.

    NEWYORKER: If a Tree Falls

  • Ironically I worked out of Elstree Film Studios in the late nineties and met a few who worked on the original film.

    FORBES: Five Ways Disney's 'Star Wars' Franchise Could Go Spectacularly Wrong

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