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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nike contract, reportedly for a guaranteed $16 million over five years, supplied Mourning and his outside agent, David Falk (whom Nike helped select), with decisive leverage in contract negotiations between Mourning and the Charlotte, North Carolina, Hornets. "The Hornets knew I really didn't have to take anything," remembers Mourning, who held out until the fourth game of the season. He finally won a $26 million contract -- more than he had hoped for. No wonder that shortly after the Hornets drafted him, Mourning answered as he did when the Sporting News asked whom he really plays for. "I work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Nike Getting Too Big for Its Shoes? | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...quality of care indicators are excellent," Stevens says. "They have a very select group of physicians at UHS and very good quality control...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer and Joe Mathews, S | Title: UHS Care Sound, Despite Fears | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

Under the plan, all Americans will be given a health-security card, which will guarantee them a standard package of benefits. Employers will be required to offer coverage to their workers and dependents, but employees will be able to select plans offered at work as well as choose options from "health alliances" that would be formed to buy coverage for local residents. "We're trying to make it a consumer-friendly system," said an official, "with much more consumer information that is understandable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radical Surgery | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...choice of an insider for the Yale presidency may reflect the desire of the Yale Corporation, the university's highest governing body, to select a candidate already initiated into the Yale administration, which was rocked last year by the resignations of three of the university's highest officials...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Richard Levin, Economist, Chosen as Yale President | 4/16/1993 | See Source »

Some of the projects seem more impressive than they are. TCI customers in the suburbs of Denver already have what looks like true video on demand. By pointing a remote control at the TV set, they can select from among 2,000 offerings (from Hook to old Marx Brothers movies to last night's MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour) and have their choices appear on screen whenever they want them, any time, day or night. But behind the high-tech service is an almost laughably low-tech delivery system. When a customer presses the Enter button, a bell goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take A Trip into the Future on the Electronic Superhighway | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

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