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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But for all the fun, there was an undercurrent of sadness. The people in Greenfield and other rural towns are on the edge of disaster. The prices of cattle, hogs, corn and soybeans--the bedrock of Iowa's agriculture--are at levels of the Great Depression. "There is no way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Vote for Forbes And Get a Gold Pin | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

While Congress remains bitterly divided along party lines on other issues, opposition to climate-change initiatives has surprisingly broad support on both sides of the aisle. Some lawmakers dismiss worries about global warming as little more than "liberal claptrap," as California Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher puts it. Others interpret the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capitol Hill Meltdown | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

It has long been a credo of pilots that death in any airplane accident is rarely caused by a single, catastrophic failure. Rather, it's usually the result of a succession of small failures, each essentially harmless, but building a sort of disastrous momentum until the weight of the accumulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Day | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

POD also allows impatient publishers to rush out red-hot, news-inspired books ahead of the competition. Last week Pocket Books trumpeted the release of a POD edition of Knockdown by Martin Dugard. The book, an account of the 1998 Sydney-to-Hobart yacht-race disaster that claimed six lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 60-Second Book | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

So don't expect a sudden disaster. But if you're looking for a navigation system for the industry, this is it: SUVs are the most profitable things on wheels, and as their growth curve turns down, so will profits--and car stocks.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time to Trade In? | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

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