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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...term "Wall Street" will become archaic slang, like Route 66--instead we'll refer to "Marquette Avenue," home of the Minnesota Stock Exchange. The big entrepreneurs--the Buffetts, the Eisners, the Gateses--will jet off to Minnesota to line up financing for their future moves. And one day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned--lock, stock and roulette wheel--by Lutheran Brotherhood and must renegotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120 for a suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINNESOTA'S SENSIBLE PLAN | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

McMurtry has a fine time with youthful damnfoolishness, and so does the reader. The young Rangers are randy and daft, and so coltish around women that, as in Lonesome Dove, they refer to sexual congress as a "poke." Call and McCrae survive by dumb luck, though it's not clear by adventure's end that either has learned a dime's worth of sense. In fact, they are still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CLIMBING THE FOOTHILL | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

...charges of election fraud in general, we have only to refer Williams to a document with which she should be more familiar: the HRC constitution. In Article VIII, Section 7a, the constitution states that "if any member...shall contest the results of the election upon reasonable grounds, he must present his grievance in writing to the chair of the election committee within 24 hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charges Against HRC Unjustified | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...think [Dean for Undergraduate EducationLawrence Buell] felt that there should be a policyin place to which he could refer...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Faculty Council Debates Class Pre-Registration | 5/12/1995 | See Source »

Lastly, the article continues to refer to the two sides as the "Arabs" and the "Jews." Any person who has studies Middle East history objectively should understand that the conflict and negotiation is primarily between the Palestinians and the Israelis. It is those two groups of people who must learn to live together if peace is to prevail. It seems to me that the first step is acknowledging history fairly and logically. Betty L. Shamieh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilf Article Omits Important Facts | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

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