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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coaxes double entendres out of every innocent comment from chaperoned contestants ("I was impressed with his incredible plowing ability"). In "Legends of Springsteen," a New Jersey rock fan recalls the time when the Boss made a surprise appearance at a bar, played all night and even stayed around to mop the floor and refill the catsup bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twisting The Satiric Knife | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...same time this "mop-up" was going on, the U.S. Army was making sure that we knew just how dangerous the supposed general population is. In Panama City there was "sporadic sniping, widespread civil looting, and 'dignity battalions' that roamed the unoccupied portions of the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kill 'Em All & Let God Sort 'Em Out | 1/24/1992 | See Source »

...program he endorses--known as SETI, which stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence--is enjoying a comfortable share of scientific and governmental support. In fact, on October 12, 1992, exactly 500 years after Christopher Columbus's New World landing, NASA is planning to begin its SETI Microwave Observance Project (MOP) at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The program will be the most comprehensive and systematic search that has ever been attempted... by humans...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: TUNING IN TO THE UNIVERSE | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

After lunch, a Dorm Crew bigwig--I think it was the "Generalissimo," but it could just as easily have been the "Czar" or "Grand Poobah"--taught my crew how to wax floors. To wax correctly, one must saturate one's mop with wax and then squeeze exactly 70 percent of the wax back into the bucket. There is no other correct method...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Cleaning Toilets for the Core | 9/21/1991 | See Source »

...course, Saddam will get his wish. An allied ground assault will be needed, if only to mop up the remaining Iraqi force in Kuwait. But when the U.S.-led onslaught begins, it will not be an assault of the Iranian variety. To begin with, it will come in more than one place: a broad flanking movement far to the west, for example, possibly accompanied by a Marine amphibious landing in Kuwait and multiple feints at the fortified front as well. Because the Iraqis have no reconnaissance planes in the air and no battlefield intelligence aside from what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strategy: Saddam's Deadly Trap | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

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