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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after hectic negotiating, to name its Prime Minister: H.D. Deve Gowda, chief minister of the southern state of Karnataka, who was chosen because of his relative obscurity and presumed inoffensiveness to all the power brokers. If he gets in, the coalition that made him, having achieved its one common aim, is likely to break apart. And that could mean Indian voters will soon be lining up at the polls again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TENUOUS HOLD ON POWER | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...dean doesn't sit on a pool of money and aim the spigot in [whichever] direction asks for it," Kirshner says. "A lot of these things happen because faculty members go out and get the money...

Author: By Michael T. Jalkut, | Title: Astronomy Department Seeks | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

...should aim for greater growth than this, Forbes said...

Author: By Matthew S. Mchale, | Title: Forbes Stresses Need for America To Lead in International Politics | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

...horrific attacks on civilians of the world. Hezbollah is widely believed to be behind the 1983 truck bombing that killed 241 Americans in Beirut. It was also responsible for the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. Contrary to the claim of the authors that the sole aim of the Hezbollah aggression in Southern Lebanon is "to end the Israeli occupation of their country" (which country, Iran?), the motives of the so-called "Party of God" as declared in their 1985 charter are "not limited to the [Israeli Army] presence in Lebanon" but rather include "the complete destruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lebanon Editorial Misstates Case | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

...reason for the gender gap is not that women are "different" in the direction of better or smarter but that men have been drifting off. The aim should be to close the gap as quickly as possible--by bringing the guys back into the human race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENDER: WHOSE GAP IS IT, ANYWAY? | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

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