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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acronym for Harvard Youth for Political Empowerment '96, HYPE '96 will be a momorable event, according to its organizers, with food, games, speakers, booths and music...

Author: By Amber L. Ramage, | Title: IOP's Upcoming Political Carnival Is More Than Just HYPE | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

DIED. E. DIGBY BALTZELL, 80, sociologist who, in his studies of American Protestantism, popularized the acronym wasp for his fellow white Anglo-Saxon Protestants; in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 2, 1996 | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...borrowing from other movies so long as it's done well. Viewers will have flashbacks to a wide array of adventure, sci-fi, and apocalyptic classics: "Star Wars," "Top Gun," "Alien," "The Day the Earth Stood Still," and TV movie landmarks like "V," and "The Day After." Even the acronym-based ad campaign reminds one of "Terminator 2: Judgement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mom, Aliens and Apple Pie: ID4 Revives Proud Tradition | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

...years, Galloway says, the mostly white suburbs around Buffalo have been hostile to minorities. Security guards and police keep blacks under surveillance, he claims, and even have a special lingo for this detail. "Radio calls would say, 'We are stopping a unit," Galloway says, "which is an acronym for 'Unwanted Nigger In Town.'" (Police deny using this term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...sponsors' names. There is the Year of Glad, the Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland, the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment. The technology of pleasure has driven people deeper into themselves. There is a new political structure known as the Organization of North American Nations whose acronym is ONAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAD MAXIMALISM | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

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