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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advisory group, which will deliberate with Healy on the feasibility of the measures set forth in the two proposals, will consist of the deputy and assistant city managers as well as city department heads involved in housing activities...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: City Ups Water Bill; Forms Rent Control Advice Board | 3/20/1991 | See Source »

Donald says this newly-examined documentation does not consist of secret memoranda per se, but rather personal letters and notes that crossed Lincoln's desk during his presidency. These papers are now contained on 97 reels of microfilm that Donald has been reading over the last two and one-half years...

Author: By Roger G. Kuo, | Title: Daring to Do Lincoln | 3/14/1991 | See Source »

...does the play drag so? For one, Family Secrets is obscenely overwritten. The first two acts consist almost entirely of the grandmother reminiscing about her life. Again and again, Diane asks a question or shows Theresa a photo which triggers her grandmother to say, "God, that brings back memories." She then starts an interminable monologue about escaping from Warsaw during the Nazi occupation, or coming to America, or her late husband Joe. These speeches present a detailed and authentic-sounding portrait of Eastern European immigrants, but so what? The details have nothing to do with the plot and, more important...

Author: By Elijah T. Siegler, | Title: Some Secrets Should Not be Told | 2/15/1991 | See Source »

Instead, the courses consist of students meeting twice a week in small sections, each time preparing a brief paper about the day's assigned reading. Two section leaders--a graduate student and an undergraduate who has already taken the course--lead discussions and comment on the papers, but they don't grade them. There are no grades here, except for a final evaluation at the end of the term...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: David Layzer: Teaching Science Through Prose or Poetry, But Not Equations | 2/9/1991 | See Source »

...years, American military hardware has been the butt of bitter jokes, taxpayer complaints and congressional investigations. To judge by the cost overruns and testing mishaps, the U.S. arsenal seemed to consist of planes that spun out of control, tanks too cumbersome to maneuver and spare parts with Tiffany price tags. What a difference a war makes. Now that U.S. Patriots are chasing down Scuds and laser-guided bombs are nailing targets in Iraq, the once derided weaponry has become the star of the war. Suddenly, everybody is a weapons buff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Weapons: Inside the High-Tech Arsenal | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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