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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deserted stretch of shoreline on a radioactive lake is not the ideal place to argue the merits of building a new nuclear power plant. This may explain why V.I. Fetisov, director of the Mayak nuclear-waste processing plant near Chelyabinsk, had little to say to the large man with silvery hair and thundering voice. "It doesn't seem to me," said the presidential candidate, "that we should build a power station of the type they had in mind. Absolutely not. Do you want to stick an atom bomb right next to Chelyabinsk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barnstorming With Boris | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

Promoting the Wilsonian ideal of self-determination should be a goal of U.S. foreign policy, but not when one nationality uses the fulfillment of its own aspirations as an excuse for the suppression of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...comes real close to being the ideal person to coach," Graham adds. "I don't think anybody worked as hard as she did. She worked on weekends and after practice. She had the top winning percentage on the team, and she did it playing up at number...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: It's Not So Bad At Second Fiddle | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Wong's thesis is a quilt depicting the pressure that media images place on women to conform to "an impossible ideal," she says. "It's mainly dealing with the media creation of ideals of feminine perfection...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Luck and the World Smile Upon Her | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...years ago, Minter helped found an organization to do just that. The result was Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism (AWARE), a program dedicated to the same ideal of helping students better conquer racial and cultural obstacles in everyday life...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Where Idealism and Pragmatism Collide | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

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