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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...policy twist, they charged, was administratively unworkable, legally shaky and likely to invite endless litigation. Moreover, by outlawing the use of general funds, the ruling placed the largest source of money for minority scholarships off limits. "On issues of race and sex discrimination, Bush is merely Ronald Reagan in sheep's clothing," fumed Ralph Neas, head of the Washington-based Leadership Conference on Civil Rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lamar Alexander: Who's In Charge Here? | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...straight-up appraisal of land and homes, people were compensated at rates that often surpassed five times market value. The newly "homeless" pocketed most of the money, since they were given low-interest loans to build new houses and were granted land that had previously been used by grazing sheep and goats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A New Kuwait | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...dance and frivolity continues to charm children -- and their parents -- as engagingly as it has for the past 57 years. All the seasonal staples are there, from the Nutcracker's wooden soldiers and Santa's elves to the traditional show-closing Nativity scene in which, as usual, live camels, sheep and donkeys manage to upstage the Holy Family. In New York City, through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 24, 1990 | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...political attack from the mild, mumbling Sir Geoffrey Howe, one of his parliamentary opponents once gibed, was "like being savaged by a dead sheep." Margaret Thatcher might have wished it were so as she sat rigidly, arms folded, in the House of Commons last week, listening to Howe attack her. In a speech explaining his resignation as Deputy Prime Minister earlier this month, he sounded more like a lion, and a very live one at that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain The Melting of the Iron Lady | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...California this fall saw any sheep being slaughtered on the roadway in honor of an arriving candidate, the way they still like to do it in Turkey. That would not go over in the shopping malls of Rancho Cucamonga." So observes TIME's West Coast bureau chief Jordan Bonfante, who should know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Nov 19 1990 | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

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