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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parks are mom-and-pop operations, the Yosemite company is not the only Park Service contractor reaping hefty revenues. TW Recreational Services rang up $49 million at Yellowstone in 1989, and Amfac Resorts, which runs the south rim of the Grand Canyon, pulled in $23 million. Such firms contend that their size and financial strength have helped to make the parks more attractive places...
...scrolls. He then faced growing scholarly anger because, 43 years after the first documents were discovered, one-fifth or more of the scrolls are still unpublished and unavailable to academe. His five colleagues on the scrolls team cited the delays as a reason to remove Strugnell, but other experts contend that he has worked to end the logjam...
Republican organizers say the one person holding back the choice of San Diego % as the site of the party's 1992 convention is -- George Bush. The transplanted Texan is known to want to hold his coronation in Houston. But G.O.P. advisers contend that having the event in California could boost Bush's chances for carrying the state, which he won by a margin of just 3.5% in 1988. Thanks to its population boom, the Golden State will provide 54 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency...
...possibility of widespread HIV testing, bruited about for months, has stirred fierce opposition. The American Public Health Association, civil liberties groups and unions representing medical workers contend that a policy change at this time is misguided and scientifically unjustified. "The CDC is not focusing on public health," declares Ruth Finkelstein of the AIDS Action Council, a watchdog group. "It is focusing on public relations. The issue is being framed as one in which doctors are being irresponsible. The fact is that the public health risk from infected medical professionals is infinitesimal...
...most sensational rubout in recent Mob history: the slaying of Paul Castellano, then head of the Gambino family, by three gunmen as Castellano left a Manhattan restaurant on Dec. 16, 1985. Gotti has long been suspected of having arranged the hit so he could take over the family. Police contend that Castellano did not trust Gotti and was grooming Thomas Bilotti, his bodyguard, as the next head of the family. (Bilotti too was killed in the ambush.) While Gotti is not accused of pulling a trigger, investigators say they have a witness who can place him near the shooting scene...