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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Constancy has not been a hallmark of Bush's political style. His position on taxes, for example, is a monument to political expediency. In 1980 he opposed Ronald Reagan's supply-side theories as "voodoo economics," then promptly jettisoned that belief in exchange for a place on the G.O.P. ticket. In 1988 he vowed to lower the deficit without raising taxes, only to reverse himself two years later when he signed the 1990 budget deal. That agreement raised all kinds of taxes -- and still failed to lower the deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Politics: Is Bush Getting a Free Ride? | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...corroding cell membranes and killing cells outright. Such molecular mayhem, scientists increasingly believe, plays a major role in the development of ailments like cancer, heart or lung disease and cataracts. Many researchers are convinced that the cumulative effects of free radicals also underlie the gradual deterioration that is the hallmark of aging in all individuals, healthy as well as sick. Antioxidants, studies suggest, might help stem the damage by neutralizing free radicals. In effect they perform as cellular sheriffs, collaring the radicals and hauling them away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Scoop On Vitamins | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...A.N.C. denounced the plan as a "hallmark of racism" and a step that gives the white minority (4.5 million, vs. 28 million blacks) a veto over the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Question of Confidence | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

Hers is a far cry from the in-your-face style that has been the hallmark of mostly male police forces for years. But while women constitute only 9% of the nation's 523,262 police officers, they are bringing a distinctly different, and valuable, set of skills to the streets and the station house that may change the way the police are perceived in the community. Only on television is police work largely about high-speed heroics and gunfights in alleys. Experts estimate that 90% of an officer's day involves talking to citizens, doing paperwork and handling public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Women Better Cops? | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...implacable pattern that fate has handed them. When they think they are most in control, changing the direction of their lives, they are actually exposing themselves to ruin. To be safe is contemptible, to dare disastrous. That Stone makes exciting fiction out of this depressing scenario is the hallmark of his mastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Wanted More | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

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