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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just licked the stamp and dropped your 1997 tax return in the mailbox--with return receipt requested. But this is no time to nap. The taxman has given you plenty to think about in '98. Now is the time to tune up your strategy or get ground up next April in the wheels of change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing Gears | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...nationwide. A pair of candidates for MIT's student government in 1993 made two-ply one of their major issues. Toilet paper was the first platform plank of a pair of candidates for Penn State's student council earlier this year (plank No. 2 was the creation of a "nap lounge"). And American University's online newspaper, The Eagle's Web, last year ran one student's emphatic plea for two-ply. "I didn't even know they sold one-ply toilet paper any more in this country," wrote the student, Phil Schneider. "This is America, for god sakes...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Idealism Takes a Tumble | 12/16/1997 | See Source »

...over her head. She spoke almost no English and complained that we hugged our kids too much. She left in a week. The fourth, also from Germany, had no energy. We literally had to wake her in the morning, and by early afternoon she needed a nap. She lasted eight months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AU PAIR ODYSSEY | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Although big classes early in the morning may seem like a good time for a nap, Harvard's biggest classes this semester are nothing to sleep through, students said...

Author: By Lisa B. Keyfetz, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Ec 10 Heads List of Largest Courses; 'First Nights' Second | 9/25/1997 | See Source »

Some students say that they prefer to spend the entire night at the library and then return home for a quick nap...

Author: By Benjamin A. Stingle, | Title: Studying Fiends Camp Out in Cabot Library | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

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