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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though, has a splendid eye for culinary trivia. In the Germanic dukedom of Saxony, noblemen who illicitly married commoners were punished by being force-fed pepper until they died. The builders of Egypt's pyramids were paid off in onions. The Roman scholar Pliny was startled by the high retail prices of the Eternal City -- "Have times really changed?" the author asks -- and believed that the odor of garlic would repel scorpions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food For Thought | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...spate of reports showing a marked early-1993 slowdown was no surprise, it was no cause for joy either. January numbers showing the sharpest plunge in new-home sales in 11 years might be shrugged off, since winter housing figures are notoriously unreliable. Slow February sales by major retail chains are a pattern worsened this year by storms. Drops in January factory orders, the late-February selling pace of new cars and an increase in first-time claims for unemployment insurance were not so easily dismissed. One bit of consolation: the unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a percentage point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Surprise, No Joy: The Recovery Slows | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...deductible business meals. In the early 1980s, power lunches were 100% deductible. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 sliced that to 80%. "What's going to happen in five years?" asks Fisher, who adds facetiously, "Why not just knock it out completely and knock out the country's leading retail employer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooking Up a Political Storm | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...speedup appears to be psychological too. Retail sales rose 1.2% in December, largely because shoppers who had long been too wary to buy more than they could pay for in cash became willing to go into debt again. Consumer credit rose at a 4.1% annual rate in December to $725.9 billion, the fastest rate in nearly two years. It seems no coincidence that surveys showed consumer confidence rising sharply right after Clinton's victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Lucky Numbers | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

According to Murray, a job seeker should "think about the industry" before choosing a wardrobe. While corporate jobs like consulting and accounting generally mandate traditional business wear, other careers, such as retail, accept more modish apparel...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making Waves at your First Interview | 1/13/1993 | See Source »

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