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In the 1990s, the UAW began to focus on new areas of organizing both geographically ( in places like Puerto Rico ) and in terms of occupations, with new initiatives among university staff, freelance writers ( through the subsidiary National Writers Union ) and employees of non-profit organizations, including workers at Mother Jones Magazine and the Sierra Club who are represented by UAW Local 2103.
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Through the Internet, a movement began to develop in opposition to the doctrines of neoliberalism which were widely manifested in the 1990s when the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) proposed liberalisation of cross-border investment and trade restrictions through its Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ).
When emulators of 1980s video game consoles began to appear on home computers in the late 1990s, the Atari 7800 was one of the last to be emulated.
* It was also during the 1990s that the anime craze grew out of video games, and the youth group known as otaku began to pour into Akihabara.
After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the new Islamic government of Iran began an international campaign of assassination that lasted into the 1990s.
In the early 1990s, the army began to undergo a generational change.
The stolen base remained a popular tactic through the 1980s, perhaps best exemplified by Vince Coleman and the St. Louis Cardinals, but began to decline again in the 1990s as the frequency of home runs reached unprecedented heights and the steal-friendly artificial turf ballparks began to disappear.
The Egyptian identification card controversy began in the 1990s when the government modernized the electronic processing of identity documents, which introduced a de facto requirement that documents must list the person's religion as Muslim, Christian, or Jewish ( the only three religions officially recognized by the government ).
) Construction of residential buildings began north of the World Financial Center in the late 1990s and completion of the final lots scheduled to be completed by spring 2011.
The M-19 and several smaller guerrilla groups were successfully incorporated into a peace process as the 1980s ended and the 1990s began, which culminated in the elections for a Constituent Assembly of Colombia that would write a new constitution, which took effect in 1991.
By the 1990s Conservative Judaism continued to flourish, yet dichotomies of practice and belief, which had been present for years, began to formulate.
Following the discovery, starting in the 1990s, of other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto began to be seen not as a planet orbiting alone at 40 AU, but as the largest of a group of icy bodies in that region of space.
In the late 1990s, groups such as the Censorware Project began reverse-engineering the content-control software and decrypting the blacklists to determine what kind of sites the software blocked.
Cable television began in the early 1990s in Australia.
Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, many governments presiding over planned economies began marketization ( or as in the Soviet Union, the system collapsed ) and moving toward market-based economies by allowing individual enterprises to make the pricing, production, and distribution decisions, granting autonomy to state enterprises and ultimately expanding the scope of the private sector through privatization.
In the late 1980s and increasingly through the 1990s, a revival of the original disco style began to emerge.
Drum and bass began as an offshoot of the United Kingdom rave scene of the very early 1990s.
In the 1990s concurrent with the resurgence of the Cowboys under Jimmy Johnson the Packers after two decades of mediocre results began to become a playoff power again with the ascension of quarterback Brett Favre.
In the late 1990s, an amateur cartoonist named Karl Hörnell began submitting a comic strip parodying both Dilbert and the Image Comics series The Savage Dragon to Dragon creator Erik Larsen.
Dublin City Council began installing cycle lanes and tracks throughout the city in the 1990s, and the city has over of specific on-and off-road tracks for cyclists.
In the 1980s and 1990s, colleges and universities began to introduce diplomas and degrees in jazz performance.
In spite of a gradual decrease during the 1980s, the city's population began to grow once again with the beginning of the Russian immigration in the 1990s.
Recovery began in the 1990s, but growth has been constrained by the lack of suitable hotels and other infrastructure, despite a boom in construction of small and medium-sized hotels and restaurants, and by the impact of drought, the 1998 – 2000 war with Eritrea, and the specter of terrorism.
Adventure sports have been institutionalized since the 1990s, when the Adventuresports Institute of Garrett College began offering a degree in Adventure Sport Management.
In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, a growing number of composers ( many of them composer-performers who had grown up playing the instrument in rock bands ) began writing contemporary classical music for the electric guitar.
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With the establishment of democratically-elected governments in all Central American nations by the 1990s, Costa Rica turned its focus from regional conflicts to the pursuit of neoliberal policies on the isthmus.
In the late 1990s, Chaosium effectively split up into various successor companies, each maintaining its focus on a few of the company's products.
By the late 1990s, however, the focus had shifted to health care fraud, which now accounts for the majority of cases filed by whistleblowers and by the government.
Analysts continue to debate the actual benefits of the shift away from the import-substitution industrialization ( ISI ) policies of the 1960s and 1970s toward a new focus on free zones and assembly industries in the 1990s.
The gap between rich and poor grew in the 1990s, resulting in popular dissatisfaction over the skewed distribution of the reconstruction's benefits and leading the government to shift its focus from rebuilding infrastructure to improving living conditions.
Alternative rock grew out of the grunge scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s and is particularly favored by college radio and adult album alternative stations ; there is a strong focus on songwriters and bands with an outsider sound or a more sophisticated sound than the " three chord wonder " cliché.
This allowed Howard to focus the election on the economy and memory of the early 1990s recession, and on the longevity of the Labor government, which in 1996 had been in power for 13 years.
Cost reduction has been a primary focus of the IT industry since the 1990s.
In the 1990s, industries began to focus on “ core competencies ” and adopted a specialization model.
In the 1970s, the focus of debate within American human geography lay on political economic processes ( though there also was a considerable number of accounts for a phenomenological perspective on social geography ), while in the 1990s, geographical thought was heavily influenced by the " cultural turn ".
In the early 1990s, Amstrad began to focus on portable computers rather than desktop computers.
Beginning in the 1990s, a focus of research has been the effects of Transcendental Meditation on cardiovascular disease, with over $ 20 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health.
In the late 1990s the concept gained popularity, serving as the focus of a World Bank research programme and the subject of several mainstream books, including Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone and Putnam and Lewis Feldstein's Better Together.
Rather than focus on narrow debates about the true nature of mathematical truth, or even on practices unique to mathematicians such as the proof, a growing movement from the 1960s to the 1990s began to question the idea of seeking foundations or finding any one right answer to why mathematics works.
While the Seattle music scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s in actuality consisted of various styles and genres of music, its representation in the media " served to depict Seattle as a music ' community ' in which the focus was upon the ongoing exploration of one musical idiom, namely grunge.
The focus of economic reform since the early 1990s has been widespread privatization, especially of the state-run agricultural and industrial sectors.
By the 1990s, the Aryan Brotherhood had shifted its focus away from killing for strictly racial reasons and focused on organized crime, such as drug trafficking, prostitution and sanctioned murders.
In the early 1990s, the MAB programme ’ s focus shifted to promoting interactions of mankind with nature in terms of sustainable living, income generation and reducing poverty.
In the 1980s and 1990s Newport made plans to develop its riverfront and core to focus primarily on " family friendly " tourism, instead of the " Sin City " tourism of the past.
The city approached build-out in the late 1990s and changed focus from new development to redevelopment and rehabilitation of existing structures.
In the late 1990s the RPI Tech Park became the focus of regional and state-wide push to get a chip fabrication factory ( chip fab plant ) built.
The 1990s saw the beginnings of a new wave of animated series targeted primarily to adults, after a lack of such a focus for over a decade.
In the 1990s, nCUBE shifted its focus from the parallel computing market to the Video on demand ( VOD ) video server market.
During the 1990s, his roles became much smaller, due to the fact that Oz had turned his focus to directing non-Muppet films and reduced his time with the Muppets.
There was a rapid loss of around 25 % of its membership in the mid to late 1990s because the grades of staff covered by the union were the ones hardest hit when British Rail was broken up from 1994 onwards ; however the Executive Committee adopted a policy of seeking to vigorously recruit additional members particularly in those areas such as travel agencies which had not been the principal focus of the union in the past.
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