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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...view it on every horizon. The old planet is sagging more than ever from its burdens of people and pollution, and it no longer takes a hydrologist or climatologist to detect it. Every American can see it in the air. You can stand with Nancy Reagan on the lawn of her sun-drenched Bel Air home above Beverly Hills and see a sinister tongue of smog lick out and engulf the office where her husband works just three miles below. Or you can walk along the low hills of North Dakota and scuff through the shifting soil that still blows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Issue That Won't Wash Away | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...plan: to systematically dispose of the members of the Fly Club, coerce the last survivor into signing over the building before disposing of him, and then use the building for a much-needed women's center. After all, The Fly Club is in an excellent location, has a beautiful lawn, and has ample parking space...

Author: By Davida F. Mcdonald, | Title: . . .Cause for Modest Proposal | 3/22/1990 | See Source »

Wallyball? A designer sport that resembles volleyball on a squash court, it brought to 23 the number of sports the President has indulged in since his Inauguration. Though Bush can still throw a ringer every sixth pitch on his South Lawn pit, his enthusiasm for horseshoes has been nudged aside by this new winter passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Totaling Up Year One | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

Mexican officials were enraged by the program, and last week the government- owned television network launched a counterattack: an hour-long documentary charging that Camarena himself was a narcotics dealer and was killed after he betrayed the drug lords he worked for. Drug Enforcement Administration Director Jack Lawn, a prominent character in the NBC program, labeled the charges "outrageous" and pointed out that Camarena died penniless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Postinvasion Blues | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...stand coffee-table tall. Bright and affectionate, the primarily dark gray or black porkers will happily feed on Purina Lab Mini- Pig Chow Grower, or on almost anything that falls off the dinner table. On the downside, they can outroot gophers in ruining a manicured lawn, and they love to knock telephone receivers off their cradles and poke the touch-tone dials with their sensitive snouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: This Little Piggy Ate Roast Beef | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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