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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that leaves the immediate problem of the spending bills. Republicans who were around in 1995 are still spooked by Clinton's ability to put the blame on Congress if the government shuts down. So they are finding even more creative ways to slip programs over, under or around the caps. The census, which under the Constitution has occurred every 10 years since 1790, has been classified for 2000 as an emergency, along with at least $25 billion in other programs, because the 1997 caps exempted emergency spending. That exemption was supposed to cover things like floods and hurricanes, but floods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phantom Surplus | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

Karmazin has no problem with the free flow of information in a democracy. In fact, he's all for a diversity of voices: CBS has long owned competing news-radio stations in the same markets. But in the modern American media world--Viacom's world--the free flow of information had better be accompanied by the free flow of cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CBS-Viacom Merger: A Media Giant Pops Up | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...able to complete 10 school grades in three years. This is just as well, as his plans for the future include getting doctorates in political science and biomedical and aerospace engineering, curing cancer, colonizing space and, natch, becoming President of the U.S. The latter shouldn't be a problem as the young frosh has resolved not to let other students "bend [his] morals." While Smith was demonstrating wisdom beyond his years, MANNY HERSHKOWITZ was proving he was young at heart. The 82-year-old made his debut at the U.S. Open tennis championships in Forest Hills, N.Y.--as a ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 20, 1999 | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...Hogsmeade, a nearby village known as "the only entirely non-Muggle settlement in Britain." Naturally, Harry's vile Uncle Vernon refuses to sign anything relating to Hogwarts, so Harry faces the prospect of missing the fun or finding a way around the rules. And Harry meets another little problem: a dangerous killer has escaped from the wizard prison of Azkaban and is reportedly on his way to Hogwarts for the purpose of murdering Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild About Harry Potter | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...only problem I encountered was when I installed Wham-O's Frisbee Golf: an error message informed me that my machine didn't have the required horsepower--a Pentium running at 90 MHz or better. (Duh. That's because it's not a Pentium.) Luckily, the error message wasn't fatal, and I was able to get the game running on the Compaq anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racing Chips | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

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