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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elegant practicality that became a $50,000 winner. Reaching Up helps health-care workers help themselves through training programs it has persuaded local officials to fund at several New York colleges. Hundreds have learned to do their jobs better through the training, and many have been promoted as a result. Kennedy also lent the family name--and with it, a measure of respect--to the Kennedy Fellows, a group of 75 health-care workers chosen each year for $1,000 scholarships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Answering The Call | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...long been a credo of pilots that death in any airplane accident is rarely caused by a single, catastrophic failure. Rather, it's usually the result of a succession of small failures, each essentially harmless, but building a sort of disastrous momentum until the weight of the accumulated errors brings the plane down. Similarly, there was nothing especially portentous on the final day of Kennedy's life that led, ineluctably, to tragedy. It's only in hindsight that it becomes apparent how the random eddies of those last 24 hours carried Kennedy, his wife and sister-in-law to disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Day | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

Despite the 7.9% annual GDP growth rate during the first quarter, Japan's economy remains a bloated, uncertain thing. Insiders say the spring growth blip was a one-time phenomenon--possibly even a result of inaccurate accounting--fueled by high government spending. The primary problem is that Japan's financial structure--everything from the way companies are managed to the amount of government debt--remains badly out of sync. Many Japanese companies are still chugging along as if it were 1981, complete with overweight overheads, inefficient manufacturing systems and "jobs for life." Japan's banks, long loaded with bad debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Rich Quick | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...surprise and delight, a fellow employee responded to my email, offering a lovely room just within my price range. I made an appointment to see the room the next day. That morning, I woke up with a pounding headache and a queasy stomach. No, it was not the result of a glorious night on the town; it was simply my bad luck. But I figured it was no problem; I'd just call them up and reschedule. So, later that afternoon, feeling much better, I phoned to ask if I could drop by and check the place...

Author: By Sara M. Jablon, | Title: Finding A Flat | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...Somerville resident reported to CPD that sometime between 9:30 and 9:40 p.m., unknown persons scratched the body and slashed the tires of his car, which was parked at the corner of JFK and Brattle Streets. Two suspicious parties threatened to damage the car as a result of a dispute over a parking space...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan and Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: POLICE LOG | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

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