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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rate, some four times as much as a similar bottle would sell for back home. A large box of Cheerios cost more than $12. But it was the meat counter, she says, that "really threw me for a loop." There she discovered roast beef for about $16 a quarter-pound. That made McBain wonder whether her husband, an advertising executive, should uproot their family and accept an offer from his company to transfer to Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BANGED-UP BUCK | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

Also receiving Ivy Honors was junior Steve Gerstung. Gerstung, wrestling in the 158-pound division, earned All-Ivy honorable mention by virtue of his 3-1 Ivy mark and his 16-14 record overall...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: BELLIZZI LEADS CRIMSON SKING AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS; MATMEN EARN IVY HONORS | 3/15/1995 | See Source »

...certainly have them. Eleven-year-old Anthony, the league MVP for the last two seasons, can now out-play Coach Joe in intra-squad scrimmages. And, as every Harvard pre-med knows, being aggressive certainly helps. Our kids have a reputation around the league for using their 85-pound masses of flesh to bruise, sprain and bloody their opponents. At practice, they rehearse the slide tackles and body blocks on each other...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, | Title: Petites' Cleats | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

Junior Steve Gerstung posted the only other Crimson victory when he won his first consolation match after losing to the top seed in the 158-pound division...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Wrestlers Display Promise At EIWA's | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

Trader Nicholas Leeson's stock gamble cost Baring Brothers & Co. $1.46 billion, $460 million more than previously estimated, the insolvent bank said today, as the Dutch ING Group agreed to take over Baring for a token one pound, or $1.65. Leeson, now in a German prison, is fighting extradition to Singapore, where he stands accused of forging a Wall Street executive's name on a document used as collateral for a loan to Baring. Says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand: "A lot of people doubt that Leeson was this lone cowboy who just blew this bomb up inside, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHEAP AT THE PRICE | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

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