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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to resist superlatives about the new Dictionary of Art, the idea for which was approved in 1980 by Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister of Britain and owner of the family firm of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., just after the 20-volume sixth edition of the music dictionary was published. (Macmillan, which no longer has ties to the U.S. publisher of the same name, is the parent of Grove's Dictionaries.) If Macmillan had not been a privately owned company, it's unlikely that the Dictionary of Art would have gone ahead. The shareholders of a public company in these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: TOWERING VENTURE | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...astronaut Dick Swigert won the first election in the brand-new Sixth District, but died before taking office. Schaefer was appointed to finish the term and has never looked back. Denver is home to cable giants like TCI, and he has worked to protect their interests. He's also committed to reduced federal spending--in 1994 he proposed freezing cost-of-living adjustments every other year to help cut costs--and is favored to return to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: COLORADO | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Going after the Speaker of the House, Coles is attempting what amounts to a coup in Georgia's Sixth. In a Republican district that has gone for button-down Democrats like Governor Zell Miller and Senator Sam Nunn, Coles sells himself as a crime-fighting deficit hawk. Though he built his $100 million cookie company from virtually nothing and recovered from a motorcycle accident after doctors told him he would never walk again, can he silence the Speaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: GEORGIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...ECAC Finish: Sixth...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Vermont Mounted Atop ECAC; Clarkson, Crimson Follow | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

Perot was not the only member of the nationwide debate audience cluttering up my mind. I also thought of my friend James, who was watching the sixth game of the National League playoffs on a muted television while listening to the debate on earphones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOULDA, WOULDA, COULDA | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

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