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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...price of a first-class stamp has gone up again, to 29 cents. Should we resign ourselves to these continuous increases in postal rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor 29-cent Stamps: ANTHONY FRANK | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

Under my standard, well-intentioned white liberals could resign themselves to be what they are: imperfect creatures trying to follow the Golden Rule. Better yet, this standard clearly establishes that people like me are the moral betters of those who advocate nonsense such as "Afrocentrism" and the superiority of "sun peoples" over "ice peoples...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Why I'm Skipping AWARE Week | 2/19/1991 | See Source »

Rauch, who will graduate this June, circulated an unofficial council-wide poll earlier this month asking whether he should run for the post and resign in April to allow his successor to continue the council's work over the summer...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: UC Ousts Rauch, Picks Rhew | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

Lafontant forced Pascal-Trouillot to resign and named himself provisional President. He told reporters that his putsch had the full backing of the military, blustering that President-elect Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the radical priest chosen by an overwhelming majority last month and scheduled to take office Feb. 7, was a "nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: General Without an Army | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

...urged that aid be accelerated, arguing that at this critical time for the survival of perestroika Gorbachev needs all the help he can get. But what if the next figure to follow Shevardnadze to a podium and announce that a triumphant right has left him no choice but to resign were Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Next: A Crackdown - Or a Breakdown? | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

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