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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States can still avoid this fate. But to do so the American public must band together and commit itself to balancing the budget and to saving America...

Author: By Bradley L. Whitman, | Title: A Test of the American Spirit | 12/16/1995 | See Source »

...environment. The opposite camp, led by moderate adviser Dick Morris, does not want to see Clinton campaign for re-election having blocked a congressional majority from passing a balanced budget. For Gingrich and his Republicans, however, entering the same campaign without that long-promised achievement could be a worse fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACK TO THE BENCH | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...m.p.h. and drift downward, sniffing at gases, measuring temperatures and pressures, observing cloud structures and lightning and transmitting data back to its mother ship. Finally, about an hour into its descent, the probe will be vaporized by the steadily increasing temperatures it encounters below the dense clouds. Its fate, says a NASA official, will be to "join the atmosphere it came to observe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BY JUPITER, IT'S GALILEO! | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...told the New York Times that Elisa would wake up screaming in the night, that although toilet trained, she had begun to urinate and defecate uncontrollably and that there were cuts and bruises on her vagina. In 1992 Izquierdo petitioned the family court to deny Awilda custodial rights, but fate intervened before the court could act on his request. By late 1993, already ill with cancer, he was planning to take Elisa to Cuba, and perhaps hoping to leave her there permanently. Tickets were bought, but he became too ill to travel, and on May 26 Izquierdo died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELISA IZQUIERDO: ABANDONED TO HER FATE | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...silence of many, by the neglect of child-welfare institutions and the moral mediocrity that has intoxicated our neighborhoods." Later, Elisa was laid to rest in the Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens. There had been discussion about her body: the Izquierdo side of her family wanted to determine its fate, but so did the Lopez side. And it seems that mortuaries, like city bureaucracies, have rules for such situations. Regardless of the circumstances, the custody of the body goes to the mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELISA IZQUIERDO: ABANDONED TO HER FATE | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

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