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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite yet set, his or her outlook still ambitious. Exactly what is it that haunts the back of the mind about the professional status? Is it the qualified disdain offered by folks like Kevin Fitzpatrick, the fuck-it-all complexion of a contemplative existence? Why does the mundane existence lure the soul? Is it fear of failure or a desire for stability in the lack of motion? Can we ask for anything other than insecurity from a life-time of ladder-climbing? Is such future uncertainty, such unease of stomach and bother of mind, such agitated fuel for the self...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Slopes and Ladders | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

That availability has also helped lure biotechnology firms. Covance Biotechnology Services, a pharmaceutical company, recently put up a $57 million bioprocessing facility that will house 130 employees by the end of the year. According to the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, the state's biotech payrolls will grow from 15,000 workers to 100,000 during the next 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE THE JOBS ARE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...this century behind Hitler and Stalin, said the decision to sell could mean an end to what he called "40 years lost in the desert." Brooklyn borough president Howard Golden sent letters to Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani asking them to set up a commission to lure the team back. Despite the delirium, cold reality soon set in when city officials reminded everyone that the Mets have a right to block any team from moving into the city. And at a time when both the Mets and Yankees are making noises about moving to greener swampland facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Breaks in Brooklyn | 1/7/1997 | See Source »

...possessing an illegal firearm. A witness came forward to say that Kay told her she had laid in wait to kill Jackie two days earlier but changed her mind. The Weekleys also testified that Kay telephoned their son several times the weekend of the murder, trying to lure him to the trailer. Kay insists that she called only to check on her children, who were staying with Jackie's parents that weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO WAY OUT | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...shocked by U.S. agents' conspiring with the Russians when in fact the CIA tries to lure Russian agents in exactly the same way? FATIH MEHTAP Kyrenia, Cyprus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

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