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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outside the convention hall, however, Jackson denounced the president's signature of a strict welfare reform bill. About a dozen other activist group protested Clinton's moderate stances...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Democrats Unite Under One Big Tent | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

Welfare changes don't affect just the big cities. Clay Country, which includes Harvard, is part of a four-country pilot program in the state that requires welfare recipients to find work. Already, nearly a dozen families have left town. "The state services have been used a lot and probably abused....People don't look for or try to find employment," Hagley says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvards of The World | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...likely be in class less than a dozen hours a week. With sports and extracurriculars, most of us were in high school a dozen hours...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: What to Do at Harvard Until the Year 2000 | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...leader. Clinton faces a sullen press corps, a larger public that tolerates him at best, and a sizable opposition that despises him with extraordinary passion. Meanwhile, he lacks even a medium-size cadre of genuine enthusiasts. He doesn't have a single reliable journalistic hagiographer, though Reagan had a dozen. Indeed, do you know a single American citizen of any profession who is a real Clinton swooner, like the millions who swooned for Reagan? There are a few, but most of them work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: SITTING PRETTY | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...Tanya Roberts in Night Eyes and got smothered in fruit by Shannon Tweed in Night Eyes 2 ("Nice use of raspberries," notes the invaluable Bare Facts Video Guide, which catalogs nude scenes in R-rated movies). But as the co-owner of Royal Oaks Entertainment, which produces a dozen or so action-adventure titles a year for the foreign market, he's pleased to say R.I.P. to low-budget DTV. "The studios increased their output of theatrical films, the mom-and-pop video stores got squeezed out by the major chains, and the advent of satellite and DirecTV alleviated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THERE'S GOLD IN THAT THERE SCHLOCK | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

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