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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan being considered by the committee is to create "more of a grooved track" so that people doing environmental studies "don't have to reinvent the wheel each time," he says...

Author: By Seth S. Harkness, | Title: Scholars Consider Alternatives for An Interdisciplinary Curriculum | 2/12/1991 | See Source »

...industry following the government's 1975 takeover of the Kuwait Oil Co. -- a joint venture of Gulf Oil Corp. and British Petroleum. And now, to no one's surprise, it is Khalifa who is at the center of his country's most ambitious effort: the attempt to reinvent Kuwait. If implemented in its entirety, the intricate and politically tricky plan could transform the demography, character and economy of what everyone involved is calling New Kuwait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A New Kuwait | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...shortages unparalleled since the end of World War II. In response, President Bush overturned 16 years of trade policy and agreed to back loans worth up to $1 billion. He also offered emergency medical aid and proposed that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank provide experts to reinvent the Soviet economy before what is left of it collapses entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rescue Mission | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Many newspapers seek to reinvent the format. But they differ sharply about what tack to take. Some, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and Dallas Morning News, carry more national and international coverage, believing readers have had their horizons broadened by TV. Others, including the Boston Herald and NewarkStar Ledger, seem to feel their best chance at survival is to stay resolutely local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Getting Bad News Firsthand | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...intelligent, imaginative and flexible government policies that tie social services to incentives for self-help. These may range from vouchers to enterprise zones to tenant ownership of housing projects. The principle of combining social responsibility with individual initiative, compassion with reward for effort, suggests that the U.S. must partially reinvent capitalism -- and do a more imaginative job of it than the heavily welfare-statist economies of Europe that are increasingly retreating from socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Second American Century | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

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