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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that they tend not to work as planned. "When you create these oversize companies, they become vulnerable by definition," says Porter Bibb, a senior investment banker at Ladenburg Thalmann. Big firms can't react to small opportunities, so new businesses pop up to fill the void. Some inevitably grow enough to challenge the giants. Indeed, every merger phase in the U.S. in the past 30 years has been followed by a period of divestitures as companies retreated to their "core competencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making a Money Machine | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

What's day like for a stripper at the Players Club, where the girls' stab wounds and bullet holes are only out-paced by the number of kids that they have? That's a joke. This is an impressive first effort from Ice Cube. His premise: the characters might grow during the course of this movie, but understand that every day isn't an epiphany day--most days people just go around doing what they do. Even though there's a main character, Cube showcases a lot of inter-connected lives. But the one real treat was the cat fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...just grow to love your family," said Hale. "You want to kill off anyone who threatens your family...

Author: By Linnea E. Housewright, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Natural Born Killers Stalk Quincy House in Do-or-Die Game | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...that gently sloped upward and then back down again like an arc across her face. "[My roommate] Sarah volunteered to fix it," Yin grumbles. "She abruptly cut the left side. The right side still slopes." Yin, though, took the whole incident in stride. Remember: don't worry, it'll grow...

Author: By Lynda A. Yast, | Title: Every Day's a Bad Hair Day | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...read late at night. But her confrontational style compelled him to sign a series of Executive Orders barring discrimination in the administration of various New Deal projects. From that point on, African Americans' share in the New Deal work projects expanded, and Eleanor's independent legacy began to grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eleanor Roosevelt | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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