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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perfect night for a launch party. This year it's as if "ideagetthemoneyhireaCEOlaunchpartyIPO" has become one big, fast millennial screech. Companies that barely existed a year ago are publicly traded, their founders ungodly wealthy. Some argue the world has entered a long boom, a kind of economic speed loop, where the centrifugal force spins off nothing but wealth and happiness. And launch parties. So up and off an elevator you go, melting into an unimaginably beautiful crowd. Every woman looks like a model; every man looks, well, Italian. This is an Internet party, right? What on earth could they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeffrey Preston Bezos: 1999 PERSON OF THE YEAR | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

That investigation, McCain has said, closing the loop, was every bit as painful as imprisonment. It was during that time his wife became addicted to painkillers--and he did not notice. His allies say the rough passage carved his political identity. "People get inspired to do great things by bad things," suggests Torie Clarke, his former press secretary. "In many ways being a POW was the best thing that happened to him as a person. And Keating was the best thing to happen to him as a public servant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Power and The Story | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...Even undergraduate club officers have been left out of the loop...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Owl Grad. Board Closes Club to Members | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Finally, let us examine Buchanan as hick, a fruit-loop, a crazy, lunatic cave-dweller. Unfortunately, this sort of ridicule does not work as a social value defense strategy. It does not persuade people of the benefits of open markets, international engagement, immigration, racial and religious tolerance. Satiric witticisms amuse us at Harvard (or those of us in Sydney) but simply serve to reinforce the suspicion of many Americans that the intellectual and political elite are laughing at them. Pat Buchanan is not a joke. He is a social specter hidden behind a political shroud...

Author: By Rosalind J. Dixon, | Title: Pat, Pauline and Extremist Politics | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...UCLA Medical Center, an e-mail system was recently installed to improve communications, but Lea Ann Cook, a director at the transplant/surgical specialties intensive-care units, noticed that nurses were still frustrated at having limited access to classes and training and "still don't feel in the loop, because [e-mail] can't replace human contact." At firms such as Schwab, management works hard at dealing with night employees just as they would dayworkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Deep of The Night | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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