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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After wreaking havoc in the Caribbean, Hurricane Georges swept through the Florida Keys, across the Gulf of Mexico and yesterday hit land again on the Gulf Coast...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Georges Hits Home for Harvard Students | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

...Nino Last year's weather phenomenon wreaks havoc this year in the Atlantic. Hurricane Zelda, here you come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Wisdom | 9/25/1998 | See Source »

...though I've hardly ever seen it work out. The best example in my life came when my parents heard about a bunch of 15-year-olds who had talked their older friends with licenses into letting them drive around the local shopping-center parking lot after hours, creating havoc. "Just tell me if you've ever been down there," my mother urged. "It will be worse if I find out from the security guards or other parents." So I fessed up to that heady, behind-the-wheel spin from rows A to N. It's possible things would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Confession Game: Assuming It's The Truth, | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

DETROIT: General Motors' damage estimate Tuesday was staggering indeed -- second-quarter earnings plunged 81 percent from a year ago. But the pair of strikes that have left the world's largest carmaker with no parts to make cars with have only begun to wreak their havoc on GM's business. "Lost market share is going to be more of a problem for GM than ever," says TIME Detroit bureau chief Ron Stodghill. "The summer is a strong buying season, and GM dealers don't have enough cars. In the auto business, once you lose a customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM's Troubles Just Beginning | 7/14/1998 | See Source »

...city has been harder hit than New Orleans. Virtually every building in every neighborhood has been struck; the French Quarter alone has one of the most concentrated infestations anywhere in the world. Damage in the metro area over the past decade has outstripped the havoc wreaked by hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined. And it is here that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service is launching its first major counterattack against the hungry bugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Termites from Hell | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

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