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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Immediately, newspapers and television stations across the country picked up on this, and this man, who had a clean record and no history of any misdeeds, was implicated as the cause of this horrible event. Days later, after a little more thoughtful consideration, the statement was withdrawn, but the consequences could not be retracted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

...only done all his asking but jumped out of airplanes besides, it really is difficult to tell him it's too hard. But that little saying is still a taunt. The time runs too long when it's theirs and much too short when it's yours (shine boots, clean locker, floss). Monday, they always promise you, it's going to get really tough. But it seems true that if you do what they tell you, when they tell you, and as many times as you possibly can without passing out, there's only so much they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning to Swallow the Big D — Discipline | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

...want this to be a clean and fair election," Elections Commission member David L. Levy '00 said. "We'd much rather deal with questions than complaints...

Author: By Dalia L. Rotstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Five Students Will Vie For Undergraduate Council President | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

Sharpton also urged his audience to take advantage of the new millennium to make a clean start and help society rethink old prejudices...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sharpton Sounds Off on Racial Profiling | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

...tens of billions, not $4.2 billion as the government states. But those favoring the regulations point out that for businesses, the prospect of paying an employee for half a year while he or she nurses a case of carpet layer's knee will be encouragement enough for them to clean up their acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Light at the End of the Carpal Tunnel? | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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