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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like their counterparts from California to Florida in tight or slack job markets, Cambridge area recipients face numerous obstacles to finding and keeping a job--among them quality child care, comprehensive health care and protection from domestic violence...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Recipients Adapt to Welfare Reform | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

...sickly 9.1%--far less, according to Lipper Analytical Services, than the Standard & Poor's 500 average annual return of 14.9% or even the average general-stock-fund return of 12.6% during that same period. Updated through 1997, the audit shows that the ladies have picked up some slack, earning an average annual return of 15.3%. But that still lags the comparable S&P 500 figure of 17.2%, though it's better than the average stock-fund gain of 13.8%. It should be noted, however, that beating the average stock fund is no harder than beating the Chicago Cubs. Nearly everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jail the Beardstown Ladies! | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

Senior designated hitter Brett Vankoski, who terrorized League pitching last season, will do the base-cleaning in the middle of the lineup. Ever the focus of Ivy scouting reports, Vankoski's big bat will pick up some of Albers' slack in terms of power...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Revamped Staff, Explosive Lineup Key Hardball Repeat Bid | 3/19/1998 | See Source »

According to Wrinn, the delay in listing thesecond arrest in the blotter stemmed from HUPD'slack of concrete evidence to charge Victoria withthe Adams burglary...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Adams House Student Catches Thief in the Act | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...says Erica, a blond senior at Valencia High School. She's usually the only girl out here, and you can see that's part of the thrill--to draw in some slacker with nothing but an art-project hairdo and more hormones than r.p.m. and then smoke him. A slack-eyed Fonz named Marcus gets out of a car and spins over to impress Erica with how many times he can say cool in a sentence, a rebel without a clue. She isn't here to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Dean All Over Again | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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