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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rockets with external leaks have been put into strong steel tubes. And when those containers have sprung leaks, the Army has put them into even bigger containers. This process, an Army report dryly notes, "cannot continue indefinitely." The Army recently launched a $4.5 million study to nail down a more precise deadline for the rockets' safe storage. It hopes to have an answer later this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROTTING ROCKETS | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...right corner, Harvard sophomore Ethan Philpott managed to send a cross-ice pass out to MacDonald, who was positioned just inside the blue line. Like a hot potato, MacDonald quickly released a bullet pass in front of the net to linemate Stu Swenson, who knocked in the final nail in the Union coffin...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Break Up Union, RPI | 1/17/1996 | See Source »

...many ways the CUE Guide is Harvard's answer to Mardi Gras. It is a reckless bacchanal, a time when values are inverted and hierarchies smashed. The mute speak; the evaluated evaluate. The "Justice" TF who gave you the B-? Nail 'er! And why not add something about her appearance while you're at it? Also the chemistry TF who humiliated you in section that one time--don't forget to mention that he taught an entire class with fly down, displaying to all the world his purple bikini underwear...

Author: By Dmitri Tymoczko, | Title: The Evaluation Game | 12/19/1995 | See Source »

...inspired talk that Sony (1994-95 sales: $44.8 billion) might now follow the lead of fellow Japanese giant Matsushita, which sold control of MCA and its Universal Studios to Seagram last April for $5.7 billion. "The real significance of Schulhof's ouster is that it is the last nail in the coffin of synergy between hardware and software," says analyst Porter Bibb, who follows the entertainment industry for the firm Ladenburg, Thalmann. "You can count the days until the movie business is sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODBYE TO A PRODIGAL SON | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

...Hickey, assistant to the superintendent, said that the banner was about 10 feet long and was probably tugged down. The nail on which the banner hung is many feet above the floor...

Author: By Nelson C. Hsu, | Title: Adams Banner Is Stolen | 12/14/1995 | See Source »

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