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She was too self-effacing to write her memoirs, but it was quite a story. She was a child of the frontier, born in scruffy Ely, Nevada; a daughter of the Depression, helping coax a living out of four acres of Southern California soil; a wife of the '50s, on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pat Nixon: The Woman in the Cloth Coat | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

The fear of litigation haunts every aspect of treatment. Says Curtis Harris, a specialist in endocrinology and president of the 22,000-member American Academy of Medical Ethics: "I have seen patients that were clearly within the last hours of life and no one could do anything and a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rx For Death | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

In the end, Congress approved Desert Storm. But only after America's prestige and hundreds of thousands of troops had been committed and the President had made clear he would go ahead with or without that approval. And since then there has been no talk of asking Congress's approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for a Big Power Swap | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

Marley and Frances Kendall have little to celebrate this Labor Day. Marley, 55, lost his job as a Four Star Bus Lines driver last May. Two months later, Frances, 45, was out of work when the state of Minnesota shut an unemployment- claims office where she had been a clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy Permanent Pink Slips | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

In fact, the FDIC has consistently covered all depositors in large bank failures to prevent runs. "The government can get away with relatively small- scale pocket picking," says Bert Ely, a financial consultant based in Alexandria, Va. "But on a major scale you cannot do it. The consequences are just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Crisis in Banking: Requium for a Heavyweight | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

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