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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mow a 75-ft.-sq. patch of lawn in 90 min., how long would it take three men, and would an increase in the minimum wage have an adverse effect on their employability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IF ONLY WE ASKED... | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...officers never carried out the plot, believing Yeltsin's bodyguards would mow them down even before they could get close. But their attitude reflects the disaffection that top- and middle-level officers harbor toward the President. Many of them were once among his strongest backers, but the disastrous war in Chechnya, the general poverty of the officer corps, the delays in salary payments and an overall sense that Russia has been humbled have created powerful anti-Yeltsin sentiments. "Six years ago, I was ready to genuflect before Yeltsin," said the colonel. "Now I would just love to lock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GIVING THE BIG KISS-OFF | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...possibility of missing such a relatively small target. Calling back the next day, he came up with a more practical solution: "So you shoot twice to the body, center of mass, and if that does not work, then shoot the groin area." Gulp. Better use a machine gun and mow everybody down...

Author: By Xiaomeng Tong, | Title: The Pop Culture of Violence | 5/12/1995 | See Source »

...Chan continue to linger. Tau point out that groups like the IOP are "so big that they can mow down anyone. "Perhaps their size can be correlated with the size and proliferation of their posters. Chan adds that postering is a "Sisyphean and frustrating task." But some people, like Stephanie Levin, an graduate students, poster as a work-study job and are unaware of any postering preferences except postering where it is most noticeable...

Author: By Irene S. Hsu, | Title: Kiosk Stakeout | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...Cricket Club, an old establishment institution for British expatriates in Singapore, but he rarely went there. The Leesons' three-bedroom apartment was part of a low-rise building on neatly manicured grounds in one of Singapore's fashionable neighborhoods, where Tamil and Malay workers come in every morning to mow the lawns, wash the cars and sweep the grounds. But the Leesons took their apartment furnished and barely decorated it, adding almost no personal touches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicholas Leeson: GOING FOR BROKE | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

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