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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...execution has not ended those thoughts. Watchers in Washington insist they do not believe Saudi Arabia is ripe for a takeover by Islamist holy warriors. But some analysts fear the Saudi rulers might have only a few years to find ways to begin reforming their absolute monarchy...
Next year, Sears' 17,000 service vans will begin offering 24-hour on-call repair service for any brand of appliance, whether or not Sears sold it. That way, Martinez hopes to transform a $3 billion repair and improvement business built on Sears' customer base into at least a $10 billion one within three years...
...Silver Spring Neighborhood Center in Milwaukee, was worried because subsidizing provisional certified care--while it might provide some cash to the grandmother who has been baby-sitting for free--could also put children at risk by parking them with untrained strangers. Indeed, this cheaper, second-class day care might begin to drive licensed centers out of business...
UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly officially approved Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan to succeed Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. TIME's Marguerite Michaels says Annan will begin his term on January 1 on significantly better footing with the U.S. than his predecessor: "Five years ago, when Boutros-Ghali was being considered, the U.S. was apprehensive because even then he had a reputation for arrogance. He was also not an administrator, which is what the U.S. wanted." Annan, on the other hand, is the United States' hand-picked choice, and resentment of that fact will undoubtedly hinder the diplomat's relations...
...battle between two egotistical billionaires. That has all changed now that Time Warner and Fox are in the midst of a game of chicken that could cut off access of the Fox network to 1.5 million viewers just as the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl are set to begin. Time Warner says Fox is threatening to pull its signal in five cities -- Austin, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Kansas City, Missouri; Milwaukee and Detroit -- in retaliation for Time Warner's refusal to carry the Fox news channel in New York. Fox counters in full-page newspaper ads this week that Time Warner...