Word: majority
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hasn't hesitated to take on a major employer. Heston's first skirmish in the cultural war dates back to 1992, when, in what he calls "one of my proudest moments," the actor stood up at the shareholder meeting of Time Warner, owner of Warner Bros. studio and this magazine, to read out loud the violent lyrics of Ice-T's Cop-Killer CD, distributed by the company. But Heston limited his attack on media violence to rap music and has had little to say about film or television. "I'm part of the problem," he acknowledges with a chuckle...
...least Ryutaro Hashimoto knows the things to say. A day after formalizing plans to clean up Japan's ravaged banking system, the Japanese Prime Minister said he favored permanent tax cuts as the other half of a strategy to revive the moribund Japanese economy. "This was the other major step that the U.S. has been seeking on behalf of the entire region," says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "Cleaning up the bad debt allows banks to start lending to businesses again; tax cuts give Japanese people more money to start spending again...
...family of Mark O.L. Lynton will fund the awards. Lynton, who published a memoir of his experiences as a British major during World War II, was an avid reader of history...
Sorensen said the tenure decision was a validation of her work, which focuses on three major cancer prevention strategies--educating people about healthy behavior, reducing environmental exposure to carcinogens and improving cancer detection and screening...
...June 24, Rudenstine met with Xu Kangdi, the mayor of Shanghai, and the two leaders discussed Shanghai's economic and educational development. According to Wen Hui Bao, a major Chinese newspaper, both Rudenstine and Xu expressed hope for greater exchange andcooperation between universities in America and inthose in Shanghai...