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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With that five-second flash, India dealt a serious blow to the controlled nuclear universe. Washington's reaction was swift and furious. First, Tenet ordered a post-mortem on the CIA's failures, due in 10 days. Then the President imposed economic sanctions on India, as required by the never used 1994 Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act, cutting off military and economic aid, totaling about $140 million annually, and barring military exports and U.S. bank loans. These restrictions will not gravely damage India's economy, but the U.S. is also bound to oppose loans from the IMF and the World Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nukes...They're Back | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: While tobacco is still a legal drug, it seems to be having a downright hallucenogenic effect on the Senate floor. The legislation that skated through John McCain's committee with a 19-2 vote is suddenly sparking furious debate -- and making Senators say some very strange things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco Flares Up in the Senate | 5/19/1998 | See Source »

...bottom of the eighth, however, Harvardmounted a furious comeback against Cassidy. Juniorcatcher Jason Keck led off the inning with asingle to left, and advanced to second on a wildpitch. After advancing to third on a Forstfly-out, Keck scored on a Carey single to center,cutting the lead...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Reaches NCAAs | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...performance when his lips have failed and his clarinet reed won't vibrate properly. Though the same scene played just as gruelingly and effectively in 1995's dramatic film Georgia, the sequence brilliantly captures the audience's experience of watching a doomed performance, as well as Allen's own furious determination to literally breathe the life back into his music...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Orleans Jazz Musician Hits Big, Also Directs Several Films | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

What is causing the furious forwarding and guffaws from all seasoned 'Net jocks? Well, Time magazine created a Web page so people could help vote in the most popular entertainers, historians, and scientists of the century, as well as the man of the century who deserves to grace Time's cover and represent this century's accomplishments and tragedies. And People magazine put their 50 Most Beautiful People up to a vote for the third year in a row. That's huge. Awe-inspiring. Incredibly powerful. And potentially lots...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: VOTING FOR DWARVES | 5/1/1998 | See Source »

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