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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japanese, to be sure, are always interested in new market opportunities. But they have a more compelling need to understand the ocean floor: the southern part of the island nation has the bad luck to sit on the meeting place of three tectonic plates. As these plates grind against each other, they generate about one-tenth of the world's annual allotment of earthquakes, including plenty of lethal quakes like the one that killed 5,500 people in Kobe in January and the famous 1923 Tokyo temblor in which more than 142,000 perished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE OCEAN FLOOR: THE LAST FRONTIER | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

Your blatant use of questionable data from an undergraduate research paper is nothing short of reprehensible. It is obvious that both you and the Carnegie Mellon undergrad had axes to grind, and the truth wasn't gritty enough. JIM JOHNSON Muskegon, Michigan AOL: JLJPixe18...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1995 | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

...continual balancing act because,especially in the early stages of your career, youhave to keep pushing to grind out the work," Davissays. "But at the same time, when it's time to gopick up the baby, there's no alternative...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Tenure, Child Care Plague Female Professors Who Work to Balance Career Demands, Family Concerns | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...direct analysis was offered by Ray Hayworth, a Detroit Tigers catcher during Ruth's era who had the advantage of watching the superstar in action from inches away. "Babe was just great," Hayworth explained. "It always amazed me that when he'd swing, you could hear the bat actually grind in his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: THE BAMBINO MEETS THE EGGHEADS | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...because the Dean is reluctant to spend his last months as Dean of the College in battle with student protesters? Or is it because Jewett hopes to suppress student protest by announcing his decision while undergraduates are submerged in the grind of finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time for Decision On Housing Is Now | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

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