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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lord Dacre (fmr. Hugh Trevor-Roper), responding to a question which asked if this century will go down as the worst one ever, was quoted in the New York Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

They have apparently found it. The reason NBC embraced The Other Side, says executive producer Ron Ziskin, "is the research indicating that people are interested in it and believe it." A Roper poll taken last year indicates that nearly a quarter of Americans believe in extraterrestrial UFOS and astrology, and nearly a third put stock in faith healing. Most startling, another poll found that as many as 2% of Americans, or nearly 5 million people, claim to have been abducted and taken aboard spacecraft by aliens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEIRD SCIENCE | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...would you rather marry from "Three's Company," Mr. Furley or Mr. Roper...

Author: By Jeanne S. Pae, | Title: Profiles: Irit Tau '97 and Tracy S. Ross '97 | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...Those are horrible choices. I guess Mr. Roper because I wouldn't have to sleep with him. He was very asexual and wouldn't have sex with Helen whereas Mr. Furley was just horny...

Author: By Jeanne S. Pae, | Title: Profiles: Irit Tau '97 and Tracy S. Ross '97 | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...They're both kind of old and nasty. I wouldn't want to marry either. Which one had the wife that wore muumuu's? Mr. Roper? That one. I could have fun dressing up in muumuu...

Author: By Jeanne S. Pae, | Title: Profiles: Irit Tau '97 and Tracy S. Ross '97 | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

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