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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nice guy. But a certain level of indifference disqualifies you. Take one small example: measles. This disease, which was virtually wiped out in the U.S. in the early 1980s, is killing children again, in part because the Government vaccination program has run out of money. In the richest nation in the world, children are dying from measles because society won't fork out enough for shots! We're talking a few million dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Is Bush Nice? A Contrarian View | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

Ontario, the most populous and richest province, which carries on $25.5 billion in trade annually with Quebec, is overtly putting economics first. Premier David Peterson quickly visited Bourassa last week to reassure all Canadians "that we will work together" to ensure that it will be "business as usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada Designing The Future | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

Helms is on the losing side of most issues, and little legislation of his own gets passed, but no one could accuse him of a lack of raw populist acumen. His National Congressional Club remains one of the richest political-action committees in Washington, a direct-mail operation that pulled in $1.4 million in 1989. The strength of its mailing list, combined with those of right-wing religious groups like Donald Wildmon's American Family Association and Pat Robertson's 700 Club, has kept the bombardment of the NEA going strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Art Is It, Anyway? | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...rival the four-decade outpouring that won O'Neill the Pulitzer four times and the Nobel Prize to boot -- the praise may merely be premature. In just over five years, since his first professionally produced play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, reached Broadway, Wilson has established himself as the richest theatrical voice to emerge in the U.S. since the post-World War II flowering of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. Just as significant, he has transcended the categorization of "black" playwright to demonstrate that his stories, although consistently about black families and communities, speak to the entire U.S. culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: August Wilson: Two-Timer | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...sister (Elvira Sali) and earn enough money to marry his girlfriend Azra (Sinolicka Trpkova). He must do it quickly, before Merdzan can get his lecherous hands on her. "Make sure her feet don't see more sky than earth," Perhan warns Grandma when he hires himself out to the richest, meanest man in town. Ahmed (Bora Todorovic) is a blustery gangster who will teach Perhan the rules of petty crime but will take a long time to learn how fierce are the strains of loyalty and revenge in his brightest pupil. Ahmed will finally get the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A People Cursed with Magic | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

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