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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Australian salesmanship in Asia has brought in healthy profits, but commodity prices remain subject to mercurial swings. Two years ago, when wool was fetching a high world price of $4.81 per lb., sheep men delighted in their earnings bonanza and stepped up production. They could not have foreseen that China, a big customer, would drop out of the market in the wake of Beijing's Tiananmen Square upheaval, when Western credits were cut off. Nor could they have predicted that the financially strapped Soviets would cancel orders and stop paying bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia Slaughter Down Under | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

Take the Civil Rights Act of 1990. It makes it easier for minorities to sue the boss if the employee roster does not meet some statistical measure of racial balance. A nightmare for employers, a bonanza for lawyers, a crumb for blacks. How many, after all, would be helped by such legislation, and at what cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Reparations For Black Americans | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...fable is in disrepute these days. Any fantasy that trumpets its artifice with storybook colors and extravagant decor -- all to illustrate the parable of a malformed artist-messiah rejected by his flock -- is asking for trouble. Perhaps only Tim Burton, fresh from his Batman bonanza, could have the clout to make such a defiantly vulnerable curio as Edward Scissorhands. And perhaps only this former animator could make it work so beautifully. A witty comedy of manners that arcs into poignance, this is a Christmas movie only a Grinch could hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shear Heaven | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...many hits can a movie mogul squeeze into a box office? The crunch of high- profile December releases, each intended to be a bonanza, will be more frenzied this year than ever. Rocky V and Home Alone started fast out of the gate. Here's the morning line on some of the hopefuls yet to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Hot Holiday Season | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...tender Kobe beef, a delicacy that sells in Japan for as much as $180 per lb. Lively and his partner have sold $1 million worth of the semen at $250 a vial, in contrast to $25 for the typical U.S. variety. Ranchers from Canada to New Zealand foresee a bonanza in Wagyu beef because Japan has little room for raising cattle. They expect to boost meat shipments to Japan when the country lifts import quotas on beef next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMAL HUSBANDRY: Texas Beef, Tokyo Flavor | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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