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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worlds of Gianni Versace and Andrew Cunanan may have first intersected in the early 1990s, when both were in San Francisco--Versace to design costumes for a production of the San Francisco Opera. Erik Gruenwald, now a Los Angeles attorney, remembers that Cunanan approached him at Colossus, a local gay club, with exciting news. "I just met Gianni Versace," Cunanan told Gruenwald. "I said, 'Sure, and I'm Coco Chanel.'"A forthcoming article in Vanity Fair reports that Cunanan, now 27, had encountered Versace among a crowd backstage at the opera, and that Versace spoke to him, apparently thinking they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAGGED FOR MURDER | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

...1990S U.S.: WHAT MORE COULD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST OF TIMES? | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

However pressured his life became, Carrillo died at the height of his power. Forging important alliances with Colombia's Cali drug cartel in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Carrillo pioneered the use of Boeing 727s and cargo aircraft to move tons of cocaine from South America to Mexico, where supplies were then shipped and trucked across the U.S. border. More significant, Carrillo demanded that the Colombians pay him in white powder rather than cash. This allowed him to set up vast U.S. distribution networks of his own. With most of the Cali dons imprisoned since 1995, Carrillo had become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEATH BY MAKE-OVER | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

SEPARATING. IVANA TRUMP, 48, the 1990s' famously (and lucratively) scorned wife; and Italian businessman RICCARDO MAZZUCCHELLI, 54. Ivana, as she prefers to be known, is suing Mazzucchelli for $15 million, claiming that he violated their prenuptial agreement by telling the National Enquirer, "I dumped Ivana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 21, 1997 | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...rocket science is predictable, and there aren't other rocket companies waiting to shoot yours out of the sky, as is happening to the discounters. Of all the newer crop of start-ups (those in business since the early 1990s), one of the few winners is Reno Air Inc., which posted a net profit of $2 million last year. The five sizable publicly traded discount airlines lost a combined $58 million in the first quarter of 1997, while most big carriers enjoyed sky-high profits. "You have to find a niche and stay with it," says Bob Reding, Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: LOSING ALTITUDE | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

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