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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because the Crimson is one of the smallest teams, everybody needs to have a good...

Author: By Dena J. Springer, | Title: Heps Set to Start | 2/23/1996 | See Source »

...percent increase in the number of early applicants offset the drop, resulting in an overall increase of 1 percent, the smallest rise since...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Class of 2000 Applications Set New Record | 2/8/1996 | See Source »

...figures released Tuesday strongly suggest that the U.S. economy is slowing to a crawl. The Commerce Department reported that holiday sales rose only 0.3 percent, a huge disappointment to retailers who do up to half their business in December. Sales for the year rose 4.9 percent, the smallest advance since the last recession ended in 1991. At the same time, the Conference Board announced that consumer confidence is now at its lowest point in the past two years. The news could pose a new threat to President Clinton's re-election chances even as his stock rises on the strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Still the Economy, Stupid | 1/30/1996 | See Source »

...thousands like him has left a legacy of hate and fear in Bosnia that makes the ideals of the peace accord--refugees returning home, justice for war criminals, a multiethnic government--look like fairy-tale dreaming. The horrors of the 44-month war have permeated down to the smallest village, in cycles of brutality begetting retribution begetting counterretribution. It seems idle to think Muslims, Serbs and Croats can ever again live together peaceably. Far more likely: if the U.S. and NATO troops pull out in a year or so, they will leave behind a country split--in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIVIDED BY HATE | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

THAT IMPORTANCE IS IMMENSE, however. Some of the smallest features visible in the photo--delicate, stalklike projections reaching out from the clouds--are actually infant star systems the size of our solar system, just now emerging from the gas and dust that shrouded their birth. The ability to see them in such unprecedented detail has told astronomers an enormous amount about how stars are born and why some are circled by planets and others are not. "People had come up with plausible theories about star birth," says Arizona State University astronomer Jeff Hester, leader of the team that took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMIC CLOSE-UPS | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

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