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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agencies before any politically tinted situations," charges Pierre Pradier, a former WHO official. On a mission to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Pradier says, he found Israeli and Palestinian doctors eager to meet to discuss health issues there. But when he proposed that WHO arrange such meetings, Geneva was aghast that the agency might seem to be interfering in Arab-Israeli political disputes. WHO asserts that all this happened before 1990, and it has since taken an active role in helping solve health problems in the Israeli-occupied areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRAINING THE SWAMP | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...Denver sent letters to every original donor it could locate, advising them or their relatives of the impending sale. A handful were furious at the low prices attached to family heirlooms. Denver art historian Ursula Works discovered that a sculpture by her father, donated in 1929, was being sold. Aghast that it was valued at a mere $300 to $500, she and her husband went to the auction and bought it back--not before fighting off others to the tune of $1,400. "We didn't want to see it used as a doorstop or sold as scrap," she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSEUMS: WHITE ELEPHANT PARADE | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...People who were at first aghast at the idea of mobile trailers are now kind of disappointed that they did not take up the ofter," said first year student David Ascher. "[The trailers] are not as garish as they are portrayed...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: Princeton Sophomores Live in Mobile Homes | 9/28/1995 | See Source »

...visit to the World Youth Day conference in Denver. One feature of this event was a mimed pageant on the stations of the Cross in which the role of Jesus was performed by a woman. Several bishops were present and took no umbrage, but Mother Angelica was aghast. Having a female represent Christ was "an abomination" and "blasphemy" perpetrated by unnamed Catholic liberals who want to "divide and separate and destroy" the church. "Enough is enough," she declared, her voice quivering with anger. "I'm tired of inclusive language that refuses to admit that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTHER KNOWS BEST | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

When Carter in 1979 changed his hair part from right to left and added a little tint, Pitts was aghast, confiding to friends, "That guy is not going to last." One Pitts theory was that untested leaders could, with seemingly % innocent things, set off a slide into oblivion. In Pitts' view, Carter's hair change was too dramatic, suggesting self-adulation. And when Clinton had his $200 haircut from Beverly Hills' Christophe aboard Air Force One, Pitts predicted an image implosion because the new President would be viewed as indulgent and undignified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: What the Barber Knew | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

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