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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gymnasium of the Longfellow Elementary School yesterday, observers, election officials, candidates, supporters and on-lookers milled about, shaking hands, slapping backs and whispering confidentially, as approximately 100 counters ate cookies from a Parent-Teachers Association bake sale and leisurely tabulated the first-place votes from Tuesday's election...

Author: By Yin Y. Nawaday, | Title: Vote Counting: A Grand Spectacle | 11/7/1991 | See Source »

...FAMILY had problems with their neighbors, it would let its dog walk all over the flower garden or blast music at 3 a.m. And if parents really wanted their children to be chosen for a team or get elected to an office, they would bake dozens of cookies to bribe the other students...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Low-Budget American Realism | 9/26/1991 | See Source »

...will continue to be skeptical of nitwits like-Alan Caruba who try to tell us what to do. Especially someone like Mr. Caruba who thinks that baking cookies is more exciting than watching television. Watching someone bake cookies on television, however, might be a different story. Evan Mandery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yes, I'm Bored. And I Like It. | 9/21/1991 | See Source »

...contribute to the formation of tumors. Tests on animals have been promising, but human trials have not yet been conducted. Linolenic acid could also be a potential weapon against asthma, arthritis and psoriasis. Europeans and Canadians consume lots of flaxseed in their bread and cereals. Few U.S. manufacturers bake with the grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wonders of The Vegetable Bin | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

This generosity in a time of shortage is now under attack. On the one hand, critics are pointing out the often wasteful uses of water employed by Western farmers: the practice of irrigating fields by flooding them, thus allowing much of the water to run off the fields or bake off in the heat; the production of "thirsty" crops like rice and cotton in areas only inches of water away from being desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colorado River: A Fight over Liquid Gold | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

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