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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invitation to the Inaugural Ball? Don't despair; Washington will have festivities to suit every taste -- and pocketbook. Some options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: Jan. 18, 1993 | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

...elderly are quick -- and correct -- to denounce the low savings rate among the young. But the growing reliance on subsidies from older generations is more a function of despair than greed, reflecting the downward mobility of millions of young families. "Inheritance looms larger by default," says Phillip Longman, author of Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America. "Increasingly, the only way for the young middle class to stay in the middle class is to inherit the trappings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for The Windfall | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

...federal judge declared a state of emergency, which included a state investigation and tightened federal oversight. Discontent among the 5,186 inmates could be summed up in a word: hopelessness. Prisoners, the vast majority of them lifers in a state where a life term means life, blamed their despair on tough parole laws and a dearth of gubernatorial pardons. At risk was a reprise of the chaos that in the early '70s earned Angola the dubious distinction of being the nation's bloodiest prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Decency Into Hell: JOHN WHITLEY | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...blast furnace of a nation as it struggled out of feudalism. Sixty years later, TIME invited Anthony Suau to retrace Bourke-White's journey. If her pictures were the positive, his are the negative. The Russia that emerges from Suau's frames is a land of shabbiness and despair -- images of dilapidation that results when sacrifice and suffering are attended only by shattered dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the Dream | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

Years of hope end in shabbiness and despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

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