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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Massive public works projects put millions to work building schools, roads, libraries, hospitals; repairing bridges; digging conservation trails; painting murals in public buildings. The Securities and Exchange Commission regulated a stock market that had been run as an insiders' game. Federal funds protected home mortgages so that property owners could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: (1882-1945) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Carruth was not one of the three men--Stanley Abraham, Michael Kennedy and William Watkins--believed to be in the car from which shots were fired. But Kennedy's attorney, James Exum, tells TIME that throughout the attack, Carruth was driving his white Ford Expedition directly in front of Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of His Season | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Translating the 600-odd-page novel to screen wasn't an easy task. Previous attempts at movie adaptations of Irving's novels have disappointed. Hotel New Hampshire, even with the talents of Jodie Foster and Beau Bridges, was pretty bad, and The World According to Garp, starring Robin Williams, wasn...

Author: By Andrew P. Nikonchuk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tobey: Irving Writes Own Rules | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

Two days earlier, "Victory Tower" had been the sum of our outside existence - the 10-minute thrills of rappelling, rope bridges and cargo netting suffocated almost completely by eight hours of long lines and inaction. (Try "Renaissance Man," filmed here, if you can stand it.) On Wednesday we got to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Private Is the Last Thing You Can Be | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...Weymouth, Mass., were wary of the hard-sell tactics used to market time-shares. But 11 years ago, Bridges, 59, an electrician, and his wife, 57, a tutor, shelled out $8,000 for one week each year in a fully equipped two-bedroom "villa" near Disney World. The Bridgeses soon learned that they had acquired a valuable currency in today's booming vacation market. Before long they were trading their place for a week's skiing at Lake Tahoe or a visit to New Orleans. "I guess I always thought there was a scheme," says Edith Bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Time-Shares Worth It? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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