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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's not surprising. The cost of prescription drugs has soared in recent years. By one estimate, drug prices have risen about 12.2% annually since 1993, and this at a time when total health-care costs are rising at a more manageable 5.1% rate. The hikes are particularly rough on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Screaming For Relief | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

While the high cost of drugs is making Americans cross the border, in Washington it's making politicians nervous. Last Friday Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert found his Illinois office besieged by 300 angry protesters wielding prescription-drug bottles. In Washington, Al Gore staged an event at a local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Screaming For Relief | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Clinton has left us with a political world where any attempts by candidates to be the real thing are suspect. But the authenticity thing has worked well for Bradley. Thanks to his cranky moments and his rumpled suits, Bradley seems unteachable in the tricks of the imagemeisters. Two-thirds of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Branding of Bill Bradley | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Blaxland was a colorful pioneer, but the business he started in Australia has become famed for producing wine that's not a cheap facsimile of other nations' wine but a unique, hardly ordinary invention. While Australia's wine matches the best in the world in technical expertise, there is something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australian Wine: Liquid Gold | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

The U.S. Senate's recent rejection of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was a huge disappointment to many Americans. The U.S.'s allies and friends responded to this vote with universal shock. I have been besieged by calls from around the globe. All express concern. Some commentators have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Call for American Consensus | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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