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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are 160 countries on the United Nations' annual development index, a measure of comparative economic and political progress: 32 of the lowest 40 are in Africa. Between 1960 and 1989, Africa's share of the world's gross national product dropped from 1.9% to 1.2%. Since 1980, sub-Saharan Africa's external debt has tripled to about $174 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: the Scramble for Survival | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...wife-can-top-your-wife game can be carried too far. No sooner had Bush been accused of infidelity than G.O.P. chairman Rich Bond attacked Mrs. Clinton for likening marriage to slavery -- a gross distortion of an educational review article she wrote in 1973. But Mrs. Bush, as if she were waging a one-woman campaign to court the political middle, publicly chastised Bond for his remarks. "I didn't like it," she said. "She's not running for office." Mrs. Bush added, "I know a lot of wonderful men married to pills, and I know a lot of pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Days of Their Wives | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...meant to be confusing; this play plays fast and loose with ethnic, gender and sexual identities, in ways that are illuminating at times but usually simply gross...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Just Use A Condom | 8/21/1992 | See Source »

...faces a stiff test in Congress. After 14 months of almost nonstop and frequently contentious haggling, negotiators for the U.S., Canada and Mexico were poised to sign the North American Free Trade Agreement, which would bind 363 million consumers into the world's largest trading zone with a combined gross domestic product of more than $6 trillion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Barriers Come Tumbling Down | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

...once again, the President's timing was unfortunate. He arrived just as a newly published statewide poll put him 34 points behind Clinton, the most lopsided margin in that state's polling history. Then Bush's message was overshadowed by the release of a new economic report showing that gross domestic product grew only 1.4% in the second quarter -- half the rate of the previous quarter. Even Bush advisers concede that is not sufficient to reduce unemployment, which stands at 7.8% nationwide and 9.5% in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong With Bush? | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

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