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Dates: during 1990-1999
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To Stephen Roach, chief economist of the Morgan Stanley investment firm, that is a prescription for disaster. He thinks growth even this year may speed up to 3%, leading to rapid inflation in 1997 and possibly to a recession in 1998. And last Friday's financial-market action showed how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW FAST SHOULD WE GROW? | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

Having a hard time paying your bills? Are your debts becoming unmanageable? Afraid that the bank may foreclose on your home? Why not join the crowd--and toss in the towel? Beat it. Just walk away. Declare yourself bankrupt. More than 266,000 consumers filed for bankruptcy in the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEADBEAT AND UPBEAT | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

ID4 is a vigorous, retro-'70s disaster movie, reminiscent of Airport or The Towering Inferno. Only this time the disaster is the end of the world. On July 2 in a near future year, humongous spaceships enter the Earth's atmosphere, hover over major cities around the globe, then send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INVASION HAS BEGUN! | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

DR. ZENON AND NADIA MATKIWSKY, 64 AND 54; SHORT HILLS, N.J.; medical-relief workers The husband and wife founded Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund in 1990, shortly after the veil of secrecy over the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine, their homeland, began to unravel. CCRF has delivered more than $40...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 8, 1996 | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

MOSCOW: After months of worldwide concern that the largest country in the world could return to Communist rule, the early returns indicate that Boris Yeltsin has won Russia's presidential runoff election. With some 30 percent of the vote has been counted, the incumbent had a strong lead of 54...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeltsin the Winner, Early Polling Shows | 7/3/1996 | See Source »

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