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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...workers that everyone is, ultimately, a sole proprietor in today's world, and in doing so we are helping to change the rules of the game at work for all Americans forever. Industry leaders know this, and that's why they have put Generation X on the front burner of their corporate agendas. They know that Generation X is a lens through which to see the future of work, and can act as a compass to guide business leaders into that future. BRUCE TULGAN New Haven, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 30, 1997 | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...bathrooms are different, too. To flush the toilet, you pull a cord or lever overhead. When you turn on the hot water, a flame shoots up in a burner placed above the bathtub. There are only handheld showers. And often, the toilet is in a separate room from the rest of the customary bathroom facilities...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: A Post-Communist Summer | 6/27/1997 | See Source »

Kleindienst says that as deputy attorney general, his initial Nixon administration appointment,he had a promising agenda of two or three programs that were quickly put on the back-burner...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Grandfather Was Inspiration for Watergate Attorney General | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

Knowles would be more than happy to keep the issue on the back burner and will assuredly do so unless there is continuous pressure from students. Thus, they must constantly remind him that students care about ethnic studies and that they are upset at the Administration's delay...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Student Activists, Heed This Advice | 5/9/1997 | See Source »

...days and nights before the blast, the grownups had pursued a remarkable will to die. Over and over they fiddled with three tanks of propane that were hooked to an electric burner and a timing device. As many as four times, they swallowed sedatives, then arranged themselves in a cross around a queen-size bed, only to rise in bleary frustration when the detonator fizzled. Finally, they blew themselves to kingdom come. For them that would be the star Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, nine light-years from Quebec. According to the doctrines of the Solar Temple, they will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LURE OF THE CULT | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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