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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...squad will now travel to Bowdoin next Wednesday, and then will prepare for the meat of its season after the exam period...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: Surprise--Women's Squash Victorious | 12/2/1994 | See Source »

...team will next travel to Amherst and then to Bowdoin for dual matches in December, before returning home to face the meat of its schedule in January and February. Harvard 8 Brown...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: Brown Goes Down; W. Squash Victorious | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...failed health plan was just a small part of an ambitious attempt to continue Franklin D. Roosevelt's activist domestic agenda. Truman found himself blocked by Roosevelt's nemesis: a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. The economy, although sound, was plagued by a black market and strikes. A meat shortage was so bad that House Speaker Sam Rayburn dubbed the 1946 debacle "a damned 'beefsteak election!' " But '46 was also, says Columbia University history professor Alan Brinkley, "a referendum on Truman," whom contemporaries regarded as too small-town, too intellectually limited and too amiable to command "the fearsome respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: Harrying Truman | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...addition, she presents some of her points in a heavy-handed fashion. For instance, she lectures on female body images while her head is attached to a body made up of meat parts. She splits the screen with a clip from "How to Marry a Millionaire," in which Marilyn Monroe sings seductively to a bunch of tuxedoed gents, with another clip featuring the Frankenstein monster. By doing so, Braderman overstates her point that Marilyn Monroe is a monstrous media creation, the ultimate "Movie Goddess Machine...

Author: By Rachel E. Silverman, | Title: FLEA Circus | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

Soldiers have been given small plots of land to produce much of the meat and vegetables on sale at the farmer markets. The Youth Labor Army, a paramilitary force of conscripts, devotes most of its time to farming. Since civilians were pilfering up to 75% of food shipments, soldiers now guard deliveries. The army's construction company, Union de Empresas Constructoras, is building tourist facilities in Varadero and Havana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raul Castro: Fidel's Brother Sets Up Shop | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

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