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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans failed in their early attempts to capture the White House. However, disenchantment with progress ultimately spelled doom for the era's "liberal" party--the Whigs--and the Republicans emerged to pick up the pieces...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Abandoning the Democratic Ship | 7/10/1990 | See Source »

Wrong. Within an hour, an "emergency actionteam" of students had mobilized to inform everyGrays resident of the impending danger. They wentdoor to door with words of doom--rife withtheories about the debilitating effects oftungsten sulfate compounds ("It will sear yourskin right off your hand. I know. I took the ChemAP...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: No Respect For Practical Jokers | 7/3/1990 | See Source »

According to the Holy Koran, the world will end not through fire or flood but by earthquake. "The earthquake of the Hour of Doom is a terrible thing," reads the Koran. Mothers will abandon their babies. Humankind will totter as if in a drunken stupor. There is no escape. The earth will give up its secrets. All good will be revealed. And all evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran The Hour of Doom | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

Want to hear the sound of Jabba the Hutt laughing as if he were sitting next to you on the couch? Or how about listening to the rumble of the giant boulder in Temple of Doom bearing down on you? Filmmaker George Lucas and his soundmeister Tomlinson Holman claim that such aural thrills can be provided by their new home sound system, called THX. Holman, an audio-design engineer who created the THX (Tomlinson Holman Experiment) system widely used in theaters, has crafted a six-speaker home version that provides distortion-free sound at high volume and gives listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUDIO COMPONENTS: A Dose of Aural Gratification | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...bearer of good news when he appeared before the Lithuanian Supreme Council last Friday morning. But the report that he delivered still came as a shock. Standing beneath a huge yellow-green-and-red national flag, the burly leader of the Lithuanian Communist Party offered a gloom-and-doom scenario of what lay ahead for the breakaway Baltic republic in the aftermath of President Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to cut back drastically on oil and gas shipments. "Understand me correctly," said Brazauskas, leaning on the blond wood lectern. "I have never tried to frighten anyone or spread panic. We have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Running Out Of Gas? | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

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