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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this number pales in comparison to the veritable forest of paper sent nationwide by the Harvard-Radcliffe Office of Admissions...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Signs of Change: Radcliffe Prepares for Merger | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

After watching a few rounds of music lessons, home-baked goodies, and a mountain hike, we decided to drop by the Eliot auction for comparison. To our disappointment, we found a rather staid group of bidders. The auctioneers sported tuxes and bidding proceeded in a prim and proper manner. The massive dining hall seemed sparsely populated and certainly much quieter than its counterpart in Kirkland. I've been told there were several kegs of beer and its partakers in the backgrounds, but clearly they were merely bystanders in an otherwise refined performance...

Author: By Melissa K. Crocker, | Title: Bidding for House Spirit | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...chances are about even in a race that would be largely fought upstate and on Long Island. Says an intimate: "The upsides are taking the balance right now." Meanwhile, Hillary's other post-White House options--running a university or a think tank, sitting on boards--seem stodgy by comparison. From all this comes one loud signal, intended not least for her own husband: "She's not interested in making money," says another friend. "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senator Clinton? | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...Comparison Between NSLA and SDS Is Useless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...career trapped," says Michele Varnhagen of the Pension Rights Center. People like Stephen Langlie, a retired engineer at Onan Corp., a Minnesota subsidiary of Cummins Engine Co., who claims his current, $420 monthly check under the cash-balance plan, to which the company switched in 1989, pales in comparison with the $1,500 projected under the old plan. Many colleagues have joined him in a class action against Onan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Pension Swap | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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