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TIME: "The revolution" has become an amazingly elastic term these days. Doesn't the term become hollow?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Should Not Expect A Miracle | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

Does that mean it can't go on? That stocks must finally tumble in 1998? No. Perhaps the market's bounds will keep stretching like the elastic belt on your holiday trousers. But it does suggest that the risk of a retraction is more acute. A stiff sell-off last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bonds Away! Stocks May Not Be the Play | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

The possible (mis) use of Title IX to close down a school whose mission to help young women become "self-confident, self-reliant, independent learners" parallels the motivating logic of Title IX-to ensure that women have the opportunity to become such self-confident and self-reliant people, as men...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Single-sex Schools and the Spirit of Title IX | 9/25/1997 | See Source »

Inning two, Boise: In the middle of the inning, while the teams switch, my mom's co-worker uses an elastic slingshot to get a water balloon into a hot tub being pulled around the field by a pickup truck. She wins the tub. We cheer. The Hawks get on...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Two Sides of America's Favorite Pastime | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

He is getting at something that has long plagued Ellen, which sometimes feels like Seinfeld after a game of telephone. Although the show debuted three years ago in the Nielsens top five as These Friends of Mine, the sitcom has since stumbled through a number of cast, staff and time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ROLL OVER, WARD CLEAVER | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

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