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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tussle for bronze turned out to be an unexpected test of strength as well. In fifth place following the short program, Frenchman Philippe Candeloro, 25, an international heartthrob of the Lorenzo Lamas school, won his second consecutive bronze in the Olympic games, keeping Todd Eldredge, 26, the five-time U.S. national champion, from medaling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figure Skating: Look Who's Standing | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...period's spreading economic chaos, which had set the stage for Hitler. The organization today operates from a headquarters in Washington only a few blocks from the White House, which alone makes it suspect in the eyes of some countries. Its top executives include managing director Michel Camdessus (a Frenchman) and first deputy managing director Stanley Fischer (an American). They report to a 24-person international executive board. The IMF staff is small--just 1,100 professionals, including 759 economists--only one-fifth the size of its sister agency the World Bank, which was established at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMF TO THE RESCUE | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...middle-aged Frenchman, his country's most successful director, has not made a "French" movie in 20 years. Instead, he roams the world, immersing himself in far-off cultures and eras, testing his curiosity, artistry, endurance. The films that emerge from his researches are quests (Quest for Fire, The Bear, The Name of the Rose); their creation is always an adventure and often dangerous. "The rougher the situation," says Brad Pitt, who stars in the director's latest epic, "the happier he is. The wind's blowing at 90 m.p.h., there's dust in your eyes, bombs going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZEN AND THE ART OF MOVIEMAKING | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...some basic things," she said, "but no official simulations or the actual spacewalk ? none of that's been approved by NASA yet." The twice-delayed repairs are now scheduled to begin July 24, less than two weeks before the Mir's replacement crew, composed of two Russians and a Frenchman, is slated to launch on August 5. Foale, whom the Russians have suggested is not only able but very willing to help, may have convinced his cautious superiors on Earth to give him a little space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ship of Foales | 7/16/1997 | See Source »

...rising, alive; perched on top of this tectonic tumult, the structures of civilization seem to teeter. The schools and supermarkets are surrounded, as often as not, by fresh-dug earth, and what's not being built is being shored up or razed. Just off Highway 50 the settlement of Frenchman--once home to a diner, a gas station and a motel--was purchased by the Navy several years ago and leveled to make a bombing range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTIN, NEVADA: CONSPIRACY, U.S.A. | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

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