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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World's Fair on pretty afternoons in late July. People dress well for the White House tour, keep their voices down because that is the President's House, but this is Our House. That was the whole idea. We come by the hundreds, thousands, in tank tops and flip-flops, to see where Webster debated and wars were declared and National Mushroom Month was inscribed onto the nation's calendar. Boy Scouts pose for pictures, senior citizens wear buttons and troll for a Congressman to pester, Pentecostal pilgrims deliver copies of the Ten Commandments and pray outside on the lawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder In The House | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

Broadly speaking, La Nina is the flip side of El Nino. But as the scientists at last week's workshop agreed, it is not just a mirror image. For one thing, La Ninas in general are never quite as cold as El Ninos are warm. Also, while El Ninos grow in strength with each degree of change in ocean temperature, La Ninas do not. The reason can be traced to the physics that links the atmosphere to the ocean. What allows El Nino to affect weather worldwide is the intrusion of unusually warm water into the eastern Pacific. As this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blowing Hot And Cold | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

With millions of dollars at stake, you don't flip a coin. You ask Des Moines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings From America's Secret Capitals | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...didn't even last the weekend. Starting with a nationally televised retreat from his pledge by Hashimoto on Sunday, Japanese officials have executed an impressive flip-flop. Hashimoto hadn't actually "used the words 'permanent tax cuts,'" said Deputy Chief Cabinet Minister Teijiro Furukawa, and Obuchi "didn't make a public promise." That rug-pulling sent both the yen and the Nikkei index tumbling in Monday's trading and left the rest of the world wondering whether any of Japan's promises to anxious U.S. officials over the past few months have been worth anything at all. It certainly doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo Flip-Flop | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

DIED. SAM YORTY, 88, maverick former mayor of Los Angeles; in the city he governed during the stormy '60s. Yorty, a master at grandstanding, flip-flopped from liberal Democrat to hard-line conservative. Urging "integration without inundation," he inspired the most ire with his racial views. After three turbulent terms, he was unseated by Tom Bradley, the city's first black mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 15, 1998 | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

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