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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result of the store's new Ambassador Program have to spend at least two hours a week welcoming customers. Buy merchandise worth more than $100 during any weekend this holiday season at Banana Republic's main branch in San Francisco and the store will provide you with a lift home. Want to avoid the hassle of Christmas-gift buying altogether? Seattle-based Nordstrom's will give you a personal shopper, who will make selections while you sit in comfort and watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's Retail-tainment! | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...this, however, was a mere preamble to what would be the zenith of Moran's career: his plan to fly midgets (his word) on kites over Central Park, bearing an advertisement for a Moran client. Moran managed to hire a crew and repaired to Central Park for lift-off, his kite handlers and the undersize pilots sporting snappy uniforms and caps saying MORAN AERIAL ADVERTISING SERVICE. The day was fine, the winds conducive. But as the crew was in the process of getting the first pilot airborne, the authorities intervened. A cop asked Moran if he had a permit. Moran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy And In Charge | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

PROZAC Eli Lilly launched Prozac in 1988. It works by blocking serotonin rather than allowing it to be released from the brain. Though it was initially controversial, more than 35 million people have got a lift from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

First, Annan sent a letter that offered Saddam not just an out but a win: a nice reward--broad hints of accelerating the move to lift the economic embargo of Iraq--if Saddam would just act nice. Saddam responded with his "Swiss cheese" letter, a disingenuous, heavily hedged show of compliance with U.N. demands that was, in fact, a prescription for more Iraqi "cheat and retreat" on weapons inspections. Nonetheless, the very transmittal of that letter, as yet unparsed, was enough to prompt President Clinton to recall his bombers in midflight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's in Charge Here, Anyway? | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...should start a list of questions the minute you find out you need surgery and keep refining that list," advises Jane Rothrock, professor of perioperative nursing at Delaware County Community College in Media, Pa. "What can you eat afterward, and how soon? How much can you lift, in terms of pounds? How should you care for the incision? When can you have sex again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing the Knife | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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