Nineties

nineties English Proper noun en nineties, in the context of a specific decade almost always the 1890s or 1990s. en D. Stacy; T. Sanda The alien almanac Omni 13 3 December 1990 97–105 Seventies UFO fans also referred to “close encounters,” including the consciousness-raising “close encounter of the third kind,” in which humans and aliens meet. But UFOlogy has gone through a radical change, and in the Nineties the terms of the past are largely obsolete. During the past decade, for instance, literally thousands of people have come forward to say they’ve been kidnapped, or “abducted,” by short, large-headed, thin-lipped entities with saucer eyes. en Helen Kirwan-Taylor Rock bottom? We're on a high http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3599558/Rock-bottom-Were-on-a-high.html The Telegraph 29 July 2003 Failure became a buzz word when the dotcom bubble burst in the late Nineties. Many paper millionaires instantly became part of the "90 per cent club" (people who had lost 90 per cent of their wealth, or more). The casualties got together and "dot-commiserated". https://web.archive.org/web/20230607101815/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3599558/Rock-bottom-Were-on-a-high.html 7 June 2023 en Kathryn White Emily Green and Me 2011 Penguin https://books.google.com/books?id=8gZbDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT172&dq=%22the+naughties%22&hl=&cd=20&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22the%20naughties%22&f=false 978-1-4152-0369-9 The house will be transformed—it will be the Eighties. Not the real Eighties but the Naughties version (Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, Naughties) where pink and black come in organic cotton as opposed to stretch polyester. en 2012 Andrew Martin Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube Profile Books, 978-1846684777 196 For thirty-six years the Lost Property office was managed by Maureen Beaumont, and when I went there to interview her, back in the late Nineties, she told me people didn't seem embarrassed about what they'd lost. She'd known men collect stashes of porn, or blow-up dolls. en Ann O'Dea Interview: Richard Florida – talent loves tolerance https://www.siliconrepublic.com/careers/interview-richard-florida-talent-loves-tolerance https://web.archive.org/web/20161104182427/https://www.siliconrepublic.com/careers/interview-richard-florida-talent-loves-tolerance 4 November 2016 Silicon Republic 15 August 2013 Author of The Rise of the Creative Class and many other tomes along similar themes, since his self-described conversion in the late Nineties, he [Richard Florida] has preached to all who will listen his doctrine of creative progress, and the necessity to ‘creatify’ even our most lowly service jobs. Derived terms en Roaring Nineties Anagrams en eeiinnst Einstein einstein