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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...address and stuff like that, but I cannot spell hardly anything," he says. He now lives in Virginia and has been searching for work around the region for eight months. Recently he drove his pickup truck five hours to Tennessee to try for a job on a road crew. At the construction office he was asked to fill out an application form, but it was beyond his ability. So he took the form and retraced his five-hour drive back to his wife Wanda Lou, who filled out the application for him and mailed it in. The stress is wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor The Curse of Coal | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Events the club has held in the past include a trip to the circus, an outing to the Indigo Girls concert, sleepovers, pasta parties and beer-fests, for which Klein brewed his own beer. And yesterday, the got the Currier House dining crew to serve up fusilli to the whole house...

Author: By Sara M. Mulholland, | Title: Fun, Fun, Fun: Fusilli, Homebrewed Beer and the Menu Man | 11/2/1991 | See Source »

...high winds forced the first-year men's crew team to practice inside the Weld Boathouse, according to lightweight rower Friedrich K. Walter '95. The strong winds would have caused the boats to shake, disrupting the rowers' timing, Walter said...

Author: By Mark L. Ruberg, | Title: Strong Storms Stymie Students | 10/31/1991 | See Source »

...Procyon is self-tacking: as the wind pushes the jib sail in a new direction, its hardware slides along a track located on the deck, forward of the cockpit, without needing any special attention from captain or crew. Underneath it all is a 13,000-lb. winged keel, which can be moved by hydraulic power from a vertical down position to as much as a 25 degrees slant to either side. That and a two-ton water-ballast system greatly improve the vessel's stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saying No to Yo Heave Ho | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

Bush carefully studied the leadership style of Ronald Reagan, which was to keep a public amiability while having a wrecking crew ready in the boiler room. Bush has had his political roughnecks, like Roger Ailes and the late Lee Atwater, who played the Willie Horton race card in the 1988 campaign. "I can't imagine this campaign will be that tough," muses a White House tactician. "But we will be ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency You Shouldn't Win 'Em All | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

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