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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nominee who won't be at the Grammys is Hillary Clinton, who has to attend a state dinner. She was tickled at her nod for the spoken-word Grammy, especially since recording did not come easy. At one point proceedings had to be halted because sound engineers could hear the First Lady's stomach rumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 3, 1997 | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...keep competitors at bay and customers happily chomping away. The new Big Mac, currently priced at around $2, could appear in stores "within months," according to the fast food empire. That deadline might be moved back, though, if, as expected, franchisee owners give the plan the nod this Friday. Whenever it comes, analysts predict that the 55 cents Big Mac will spark a fierce price war with competitors Wendy's and Burger King, who so far have been adept at luring customers away from the Golden Arches with cheaper offerings. Over the next year, the 55-cent deal will rotate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Mac Attack | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

...Crimson poll which surveyed more than 300 people about which band they would like to see perform at the Undergraduate Council's Springfest, students gave the decisive nod to the Wallflowers (29.7 percent of the vote), a grammy-nominated alternative rock group...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Students Request Wallflowers for Fest | 2/25/1997 | See Source »

...glory around. "This is a great moment for independent films," he says. "It shows that risk has its rewards." The risks are mostly of finance, not of film form. The big winners among little movies didn't dabble in delirious innovation (the hallucinogenic Trainspotting got only a screenplay nod). The primary appeal of their stories is not to the young mass audience, which prefers spectacular fantasy and broad comedy, but to older viewers, more sophisticated and more sentimental, liberal in their politics and conservative in their desire for humanist affirmation--folks very like the typical Oscar voter. This audience wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: INDEPENDENTS' DAY | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...learning was acceptable because these were the future professors of America and they were, after all, at Harvard. These two statements may be true; however, in combination they do not guarantee good teaching and all too often produce TFs who are simply teaching sections for the $3,000, who nod and say "uh-huh" at anything that bears resemblance to a remark in basic English...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Dismal TFs Unworthy of Harvard | 2/21/1997 | See Source »

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