In the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ), calls for clarification of what constitutes a culture, of how an observer knows where his or her own culture ends and another begins, and other crucial topics in writing anthropology were heard.

Through the late 1990s, the only exception to the Honor Code, implemented earlier in the decade in response to changes in federal regulations, concerned the sexual harassment policy.

" The cello did not reappear in bluegrass until the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century.

In the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, one of the new " young lions " was Christian McBride ( born 1972 ), who has performed with a range of veterans ranging from McCoy Tyner to fusion gurus Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, and who has released albums such as 2003's Vertical Vision.

Notable rockabilly revivalists and psychobilly performers from the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century include Scott Owen ( from the Australian band The Living End ), Jimbo Wallace ( from the US band Reverend Horton Heat ), Kim Nekroman ( Nekromantix ), Patricia Day ( HorrorPops ), Geoff Kresge ( Tiger Army, ex-AFI ).

A company survey during the 1990s, a decade during which Thomas starred in every Wendy ’ s commercial that aired, found that 90 % of Americans knew who Thomas was.

In Taiwan in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century a movement tried to prioritize reasoning over mere facts, reduce the emphasis on central control and standardized testing.

Economic growth picked up in the late 1990s following slow growth and domestic fiscal adjustment in early years of the decade.

Hee Haw continued to pop up in reruns ( see below for details ) throughout the 1990s and later during the following decade, in a series of successful DVD releases from Time Life.

Holden's market surge from the 1990s reversed in the 2000s decade.

The country partly rebuilt its economy during the 1990s, but was hit hard by Hurricane Mitch at the end of October 1998, almost exactly a decade after the similarly destructive Hurricane Joan and again in 2007 it was hit by Hurricane Felix a category 5 hurricane.

Average standards of living registered a catastrophic fall in the early 1990s in many parts of the former Comecon — most notably in the former Soviet Union — and began to rise again only toward the end of the decade.

The bull market of the 1990s helped spur the phenomenal growth in indexing observed over that decade.

The effects of three natural disasters in the early 1990s were overcome by the middle of the decade, but economic growth cooled again with the regional economic downturn.

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

Swaziland ’ s public finances deteriorated in the late 1990s following sizable surpluses a decade earlier.

The BBC also produced several children's science fiction shows in the late 1990s to mid 2000s ( decade ).

In the 1990s, CGI required expensive processors and customized applications, but by the 2000s ( decade ), computing power has pushed capabilities down to personal laptops running a wide array of software.

These differences in life expectancy increased between the 1970s and 1990s, and between the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century did not change substantially in a health system with open access to care ( Finland ).

They were the biggest popular cultural icons of the 1990s, according to a survey carried out by Trivial Pursuit, winning by 80 percent in a poll of 1, 000 people, stating that " Girl Power " defined the decade.

This quirky mix of timelines and the amalgamation of historical and mythological elements fueled the rise of the show to cult status during the 1990s and early 2000s ( decade ).

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The 1990s, also known as " the Nineteen Nineties " or abbreviated as " the Nineties " or " the ' 90s ", was the decade that started on 1 January 1990, and ended on 31 December 1999.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.

It has been correctly pointed out by well-informed people in the industry that it is probably unrealistic to expect a continuation of the yearly growth of 15% or better that characterized the decade of the 1950's, and that our military markets may be entering upon a new phase in which procurement of multiple weapons systems will give way to concentration of still undeveloped areas of our defense capability.

In the area of private label competition, it is logical to expect a continuation of trends which have been under way during the first decade.

It is probably more effective than the expanded scholarship programs of the past decade, because the scholarship programs mainly aided the students with the best academic records ( who were usually middle-class ), and these students tended to use the scholarship funds to go to more expensive colleges.

In the 1860 - 70 decade there are many poems like `` Revulsion '', but there is only one `` Neutral Tones ''.

In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.

Finally, while Armenia is not the only ex-Soviet state that has incurred multimillion-dollar debts to Russia over the past decade, it is the only state to have so far given up such a large share of its economic infrastructure to Russia.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

A cappella's growth is not limited to live performance, with hundreds of recorded a cappella albums produced over the past decade.

It may occur at any age but is most frequent in the third decade of life.

The average summer seasonal temperature is, but every summer in the decade beginning 2001 has exceeded this average.

By managing all four populations as one-through strategic transfers, gene-loss is reduced from 8 % per decade to 2 % per decade, without any increase in bongo numbers in Kenya.

As Adalvard was back in Bremen already by 1069 and is mentioned as one of Adam's sources of information, it would have been expected that word about Birka's destruction had reached also Adam before he published his work half a decade later.

Having declined from more than one million speakers around 1950 to about 200, 000 in the first decade of the 21st century, of whom 61 % are more than 60 years old, Breton is classified as " severely endangered " by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Winding up of companies is in the jurisdiction of the Courts which can take a decade even after the Company has actually been declared insolvent.

It is the most successful AFL club of the last decade ( 2000 – 2009 ), having appeared in four consecutive AFL Grand Finals between 2001 and 2004, winning three premierships ( 2001, 2002 and 2003 ).

Cambodia is also recovering from the land mines which were used heavily by the Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese ; it will take approximately a decade to remove most of the land mines from Cambodia.

It is likely for instance that within a decade, a great deal of trade between West Africa and Southern Africa will be moving on the network through Yaoundé.

This is similar to the English decade names ( 1980s, meaning the years 1980 – 1989 ).

In the past decade, mountain bike racing has also reached international popularity and is even an Olympic sport.

Determining styles in capoeira is a very tough task, since there was never a unity in the original capoeira, or a teaching method before the decade of 1920.

After Áed's death there is a two decade gap until the death of Donald II ( Domnall mac Constantín ) in 900 during which nothing is reported in the Irish annals.