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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While consultants argue that these new plans offer a majority of workers a more flexible benefits package, opponents say it's a calculated attack on the financial security of millions of aging baby boomers just as they're entering their prime earning years, when pension accruals increase substantially. Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York has introduced a bill to require firms to provide adequate information to workers on such benefit makeovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Pension Swap | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...anthology of dystopic science fiction, The Matrix plunders Blade Runner and The Terminator: bad machines, grungy rebels and rain, rain everywhere, even indoors. It invokes the kung furiosity of prime Jackie Chan and the heroic bloodshed and long coats of John Woo movies; the Hollywood-Hong Konglomeration has never meshed so suavely as in this film's fight scenes and wire-work aerobatics. Never seen the mega-imaginative, ultraviolent Japanese cartoons known as anime (Akira, Ghost in the Shell)? Now you have--in whirling live action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popular Metaphysics | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...have been able to get China into the World Trade Organization, but during his visit to the U.S., Premier Zhu Rongji got a chance to work on his comedy routine. As his best lines prove, he's not quite ready for prime time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zhu-ish Humor | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

DIED. IBRAHIM BARE MAINASSARA, 49, President of Niger; in a spray of gunfire, reportedly from his bodyguards, at the Diori-Hamani airport; in Niamey. The shooting came at the end of a frenzied week in which Mainassara's opposition accused him of fixing an election. Niger's Prime Minister said he died in an "unfortunate accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 19, 1999 | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...Sure, fly-by is a little soggy, but the rocks in front of the Science Center is a prime location to see and be seen. Cell-phonies and cigarette smokers just love the sun-soaked rocks. Easy access from the Greenhouse, Loker and Annenberg...

Author: By F.g. Tilney, | Title: Dining Out | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

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