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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington, that is the rub. George Bush, Baker and their advisers at the White House and State Department are still convinced that NATO is the most effective channel for American influence in Europe. They have resisted the European push for a stronger CSCE because they viewed it as a threat to NATO. But now that worry is fading. American policy makers are increasingly , confident that NATO will be needed and welcomed in Europe as long as the Soviet Union's future is so unsettled. In the meantime, says a senior official in Washington, the development of CSCE institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Ode to a New Day | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

Chemistry. Be a Minoxidil man. Rub chemicals into your scalp and pray for growth. Put your right foot in, take your right foot out, do the hokey-pokey and turn yourself about. Open your mind to science and your wallet, too--at $52 for a month's worth at CVS, Minoxidil may let you keep your hair and nothing else...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Hair Today. . . | 10/13/1990 | See Source »

Lately, as I come to terms with the prospect of being bald as a cueball well before I'm old enough to drink, the hair-rub has developed an affectionate twist. Hey hair, how ya' doin'. Just checking to see if you're still there...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: A Song of Selsun Blues | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

HEREIN lies the rub for divestment activists. Despite activists' wishful arguments to the contrary, South African Blacks will bear the brunt of economic dislocation brought on by sanctions. Indeed they must; the only way that sanctions can overcome apartheid is if they make Blacks miserable enough to overthrow the government...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: . . . Only if You Want a Civil War | 10/2/1990 | See Source »

...Expos or in seminars. But they could be much richer if they were not limited to 1600 students. Engineering more academic contact between first-years and upper-class students could only do good things for Harvard's neophytes. With any luck, the eagerness first-year students bring might rub off onto those of us whom Harvard has worn thin...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Separate And Unequal Academies | 9/22/1990 | See Source »

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