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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the Vancouver Province, Jordan has put a deposit on a summer rental on the coast in West Vancouver, Canada, a posh suburb where his neighbors would be folks like Bryan Adams. There, with the chords of Cuts Like a Knife wafting out to the Pacific, Jordan could decide whether to re-retire. (He left for 1 1/2 years to play baseball, and--since he refused for a long time to talk to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED after it criticized him--let's just say as an outfielder he was an outstanding shooting guard.) His agent David Falk told TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: The One And Only | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...yeah, other movies. Well, just because Bob Hope turned out not to be dead doesn't mean you can't pay the man a rental's worth of appreciation. This week's pick: My Favorite Brunette (1947). Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, a cameo by Bing, and some of Hope's finest and most cowardly comic double takes. Come on. He needs the royalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potato Chamber | 6/5/1998 | See Source »

Since the end of rent control, the proportion of Cambridge renters with incomes greater than $60,000 has gone up from 14 to 25 percent, while those making between $20,000 and $60,000 fell from 62 to 55 percent, according to the city's Rental Housing Study, published...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Next Cambridge | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

Between the 1990 census and the rental housingsurvey, Cambridge's white, non-Hispanic populationgrew from 71.6 to 76 percent...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Next Cambridge | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...credit-card companies are trying to outdo one another in their quest to grab a bigger share of the 57 million people in the U.S. who belong to bonus-reward programs. These business travelers ring up a staggering 500 billion points and miles annually--more than the airlines, rental-car companies and hotel chains can accommodate without cutting off their paying customers. Hotel rooms and airline seats are increasingly--and exasperatingly--scarce during peak travel times, which makes it harder and harder for travelers to redeem their points in the traditional fashion, even though such offerings are still the bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frequent Surprises | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

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