In the 1980s recession, the Conservatives raised VAT to balance the budget, while in the 1990s a variety of indirect taxes were increased or created.
Natasha Bacigalupo was once a young Forbes reporter who met billionaire publishing heir Dirk Ziff while on the job in the 1990s.
The NBA did so in the early 1980s while the NFL and NHL followed suit in the early 1990s.
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The French completed their high-speed Channel Tunnel link in 1993, while the Belgians completed their link in the late-1990s.
Broadman recalls working with the Chinese leadership on restructuring state-owned enterprises and corporate governance reform in the early 1990s while he was at the World Bank.
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While at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1990s they experimented with thimble-size reactors etched into silicon wafers to produce toxic chemicals.
While a skydiving coach in the 1990s, he rigged up a primitive computer simulation of dives and dive formations.
An average of 3.6 percent of the labor force worked in start-ups in the 1980s, while an average of 3.0 percent did so in the 1990s, and an average of 2.7 percent did so in the 2000s.
Allen began thinking about a big neuro-science project in the late 1990s, while he was making a flurry of investments in Seattle biotechnology companies.
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David Molner , the founder of Screen Capital, recognized the benefits of German film funds while working as an executive at Viacom in the 1990s.
Kenneth Mobley had patented technologies related to DRAMmemory chips in the 1990s while working at a company called Enhanced Memory Systems.
Rabiner, who helped launch minimally invasive surgical devices while at American Cyanamid in the early 1990s, formed the Wilmington, Mass.
The prosecution's case rests largely on convincing the jury that it was Mr King's racism, which became more virulent after he joined an Aryan gang while in prison in the mid-1990s, that led him to commit murder.
Kettman, a California native who grew up as a fan of the San Francisco Giants, was a sports reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and cultivated a fondness for Fenway Park and the Red Sox while covering the Oakland A's for four years in the 1990s.
Football's all-time leading wide-receiver Jerry Rice would struggle to get open for a pass when running routes against today's speedy cornerbacks, just as few NFL teams would draft Joe Namath and Roger Staubach if the two Hall of Fame quarterbacks were transported into the 1990s while in their primes.
In the early 1990s, while European governments dithered, Lord Ashdown was calling for a stronger military intervention in Bosnia.
Furthermore, even by the relatively hygienic standards of most insurers, the asset side of Lloyd's' balance-sheet is squeaky clean, while the toxic claims that brought it to its knees in the 1990s are now parcelled off to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
In general, while companies raised wages in response the low unemployment in the 1990s, they partly compensated by cutting back on pension contributions and health care payments.
EU. Mortgage-service ratios in Britain have actually fallen from their highs of the early 1990s, while Belgium and the Netherlands have had a 30% growth in their ratios over the past five years.
In the 1990s, while Estonia rushed to privatise, reform and woo foreign investment, Lithuania fiddled, lurching between populism and inactivity.
In the 1990s, while working for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, I covered a long-running dispute between shrimpers and federal regulators.
Mr. Martin has already spent a lot of time working on South Georgia, where he first went in the late 1990s while researching whales.
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While that is better than it was in the 1990s, the numbers remain a serious roadblock for some of the U.N.
While working for the Internal Revenue Service in the 1990s John J.
Mr Jolstad and his co-founder Ilya Kruglenko - who first met each other in Moscow during the 1990s while selling second-hand Australian telephones to the Russians - initially created Magic Desktop to protect their own children from getting tangled up in an unpleasant web.
Yes, because while open source has been in existence since the early 1990s, it is still in the early stages of commercialization.
The latest findings show that the rate of ice loss in Greenland has increased almost fivefold since the mid-1990s, while Antarctica overall has been losing relatively small amounts of ice at a more or less constant rate.
While president of international operations for Dell Computer in the early 1990s, Harris learned a different lesson.
He claimed his ex-wife from the 1970s asked someone to plant DNA samples she had collected while they were married at dozens of crime scenes in the 1990s - so unlikely was it that the prosecution reduced by half their estimate of how long the trial would take.
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While the author of the Magic Mountain talked about the complexity of time around World War I, in the 1990s time was compressed here.
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