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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fresh from the awesome display that won him the 1991 P.G.A. Championship, John Daly got ready to hit a few practice balls last week in preparation for the International tourney at Colorado's Castle Pines Golf Club. As word spread that he was on the practice tee, a crowd gathered, whistling appreciatively as he casually knocked iron shots into the far reaches of the range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long John Daly Hits It Big | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...revamped system is only part of the electronic wizardry on display at France Telecom. More than 5.5 million people have Minitel videotex terminals. The terminals, which are free, provide electronic access to services like home banking and do-it-yourself plane and train reservations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ambitions on A Grand Scale | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...display of his head-counting skill, Bonior predicted he would receive 160 votes in the whip's race to 95 for Maryland's flamboyant Steny Hoyer. Bonior was right on the money on his own total, but underestimated Hoyer's strength by 14. When he begins to hunt down Democrats who do not always hew to party orthodoxy, Bonior will need to look no farther than the mirror: though generally a liberal, he is strongly antiabortion and vows to "continue to vote my conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress: A Future Speaker? | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...reduce waste. While the L'eggs plastic egg is recyclable and is often used by customers for arts-and-crafts projects, the new box uses 38% less material and is made from recycled paper. Moreover, about a third more of the new containers can fit into a given store-display space. Still, a shell of the former image remains. The new box is tapered at the top, just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Packaging: A Good Egg Gets Better | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

Education Department officials say they have never envisioned a single national test, but rather a varied package. According to Dr. Lauren Resnick of the University of Pittsburgh, who has done seminal work in this area, these might include oral projects, portfolios in which students display a body of work completed over time, open-ended questions to explore student thinking, writing samples and perhaps some multiple choice. These would be part of a complicated web of standards that would be calibrated first at the state level, then among states and regions and, finally, nationally. Just how this uniform grading would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing, Testing, Testing | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

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