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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plane which flew over Tercentenary Theatre during the morning graduation exercises trailed a banner reading "NO DICE," the acronym for a student group calling itself "No Dollars Into Clark's Endowment...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Protests Are Scattered, Cheers Widespread; 'Lift the Ban' Pink Balloons Carry the Day | 6/25/1993 | See Source »

Spielberg may have designs on both roles: he made the movie, and even donated $25,000 to the Dinosaur Society. (In return the society renamed the oldest known ankylosaur "Jurassosaurus nedegoapeferkimorum "; part of the second word is an acronym of the surnames of the film's cast.) Now he is marketing it. His outfit, Amblin Entertainment, and Universal Pictures, the film's distributor, have signed deals with more than 100 companies (including Kenner, Sega and Milton Bradley) to peddle more than 1,000 Jurassic Park products, from action figures and video games to calendars and candy. If your kids aren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Magic of Jurassic Park | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...nobody knows. At Satellite City, the press encampment out near the compound, mailboxes have gone up, garbage is regularly collected, an Easter service was held, and there is an unelected mayor. The latest gag among a press corps going quietly mad with boredom is that Waco has become an acronym for We Ain't Coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Branch Davidians: The End Is Near? | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...trenchcoat with FAG (Freshman Arts Group) scrawled across his forehead was not a premeditated statement on homosexuality or homophobia. This lack of intended statement was the whole point. The letters F-A-G were taken out of political context and, after quick examination, became, instead, the innocuous acronym of a generic-sounding art group. We admit the seeming lack of creativity, but we are officially recognized as the Freshmen Arts Group; that is our name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arts Group Intended No Offense | 2/19/1993 | See Source »

First the fundamentalists must win their tussle with the P.L.O., and it has become almost an even fight. Leaders in both Palestinian camps estimate that roughly 40% to 45% of the 1.8 million Arabs in the territories are Hamas supporters. The name Hamas, an acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement that literally means "zeal," first appeared on political leaflets in 1987, but the organization was not formed until February 1988, two months after the beginning of the intifadeh, in which Hamas would play an increasingly important role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victims Or Victors? | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

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