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  • It was in serious trouble again in the early nineteen-nineties — Congressman John Dingell actually gave a speech in 1991 saying it was insolvent.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Life of Citi 2009

  • In the nineteen-nineties, a McKinsey study of companies that had put quality-improvement programs in place found that two-thirds abandoned them as failures.

    The Open Secret of Toyota’s Success « Isegoria 2008

  • In an experiment in the early nineteen-nineties, people were first asked whether they preferred a $110 microwave oven made by Emerson or a $180 oven made by Panasonic.

    James Surowiecki: A Buyer’s Christmas | Disinformation 2007

  • After a brief flirtation with becoming a family entertainment destination in the early nineteen-nineties, Las Vegas embraced its old reputation as the Millennium arrived and did an about-face back to being the best that it could be, or in its case, the worst: Sin City.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • After a brief flirtation with becoming a family entertainment destination in the early nineteen-nineties, Las Vegas embraced its old reputation as the Millennium arrived and did an about-face back to being the best that it could be, or in its case, the worst: Sin City.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • After a brief flirtation with becoming a family entertainment destination in the early nineteen-nineties, Las Vegas embraced its old reputation as the Millennium arrived and did an about-face back to being the best that it could be, or in its case, the worst: Sin City.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • A subsequent piece baselessly asserted that "the relationship between bin Laden and Saddam's regime was brokered in the early nineteen-nineties by the then de-facto leader of Sudan, the pan-Islamist radical Hassan al-Tourabi."

    Spencer Ackerman: Fast and Loose With the Facts 2008

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

    25 « June « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • Olmert has admitted accepting donations, mostly in cash, from an American businessman for his election campaigns since the nineteen-nineties, but he insisted that he did not take any money for his personal use, and denied allegations that he had accepted bribes.

    25 « June « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • “The idea, popular in the nineteen-nineties, that the world may intervene in countries whose governments show no regard for human life is now seen as reflecting Western arrogance,” writes George Packer in The New Yorker magazine.

    Bush, Burma, & An Effective UN 2008

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