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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think he is a kind of priceless gift," saidLydon

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: West Brings Regional Impact | 11/20/1993 | See Source »

Belgian police recovered two priceless works of art, Vermeer's Lady and a Maid Servant and Goya's Portrait of Dona Antonia Zarate. In one of the largest art heists of recent years, the paintings were stolen seven years ago from Russborough House, the Dublin-area home of the late Sir Alfred Beit, a private , collector. Three Irishmen and a Yugoslav were caught near Antwerp transporting the paintings, along with six other stolen works, in two rented cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest September 12-18 | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

Amidst the blinking lights, the computers and the shielded toggle switches, dispatchers wait by the phones, ready to respond to anything from a clogged dormitory toilet to a fire in a Harvard museum that houses priceless treasures...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Fire Alarm Control Center Sees Updating | 8/20/1993 | See Source »

...river view is a priceless asset, or so the residents of Davenport, Iowa, believed. Now, however, they are realizing that their postcard vistas came at a price. Two weeks ago, the town, which had chosen not to build a levee, was swamped by millions of gallons of murky water. Yet while Davenport flooded, the business district of nearby Rock Island, Illinois, barely got its feet wet. Reason: in 1971 Rock Island decided to build a rock-and-clay floodwall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Levees: Do They Work Too Well? | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

Peremptory speeches by HRAC officers were included priceless gems of inanity. HRAC president N. Van Taylor '96 called the HRRC "a debating society" and HRAC second vice-president Brian J. Erskine '96 bemoaned the "stigma about being a Republican...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Pandemonium on the Right | 2/27/1993 | See Source »

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