Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shooting guard for the Chicago Bulls would be the 6,100,001st new job he had created, before Chicagoans began climbing atop one another's big shoulders to tear the No. 23 jersey down from the rafters of the United Center, it was a Chicago White Sox minor- league outfielder named Charles Poe who confirmed the rumor. When Jordan walked out of the White Sox camp in Sarasota, Florida, on March 2, he told Poe and a few of his minor-league buddies that he was leaving for good. "We really thought he was playing around," Poe told the Chicago...
...timing is no less than perfect for Jordan's return. After all, the real reason he left basketball was not his burning passion to play minor league baseball, as romantic as that sounds. No, Jordan retired because he had simply accomplished everything that could be accomplished in basketball...
...theme of this detail-crammed psychohistory (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 606 pages; $25) by Columbia University professor Ann Douglas. "Douglas' dense, rat-a-tat-tat narrative is full of surprises," says TIME critic John Elson, who notes that the author sometimes gets her details wrong. But Elson says those are minor flaws in an "erudite portrait of a dazzling decade and metropolis."MONEY
...Vice President Al Gore today described plans to make certain federal regulations less burdensome for businesses. Their proposed regulatory changes for the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency include a six-month grace period for small businesses to correct violations, waiving fines for firms that violate minor rules, and letting pharmaceutical companies change the way they make some drugs without requiring them to get permission from the government. The House has approved deeper cuts in existing regulations and a moratorium on putting new rules into place. TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson says the Republican legislation would block...
Harvard fans won't be kept in suspense too long. The Crimson plays its first game tomorrow at B.C., a 24-4 loser to Harvard last year. The huge score was only a minor fluke; if the Eagles get half as many points as the Crimson tomorrow it will be an upset...