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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jones case didn't just drain our collective attention span. It alerted us to just how much the law of sexual harassment had expanded over the past decade. We moved from a time when a boss asking a woman to get the coffee or meet him in the file closet was neither a cause nor a cause of action, to a time when one pass or one bad joke is enough for a lawsuit. Plaintiffs can go on fishing expeditions so extensive that consensual affairs are fair game and totally innocent bystanders can be subpoenaed to prove that they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexual Harassment, Chapter 999 | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...come from McConnell himself. The House victors are urging McCain & Co. to try an old-time tactic from the civil rights days ? actually making McConnell filibuster himself hoarse in the name of the fat wallets. He?d probably just read the Bible, but it?d make some gripping C-SPAN ? and maybe the voters would finally start to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Finance: McCain's Up Again | 9/15/1999 | See Source »

...CAREER SPAN 18 years (1971 to 1989) Five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Game And Set, But No Match | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

McGuire is a practitioner of what he calls the king of all extreme sports. BASE--an acronym for building, antenna, span (bridge) and earth (cliffs)--jumping has one of the sporting world's highest fatality rates: in its 18-year history, 46 participants have been killed. Yet the sport has never been more popular, with more than a thousand jumpers in the U.S. and more seeking to get into it every day. It is an activity without margin for error. If your chute malfunctions, don't bother reaching for a reserve--there isn't time. There are no second chances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Life On The Edge | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...Life has branched out); MTV's Biorhythm and VH1's triple threat, Where Are They Now?, Before They Were Rock Stars and the flagship Behind the Music (pop music); Lifetime's Intimate Portrait (women); CNN's Pinnacle and Movers (business); and Fox Family Channel's Famous Families (guess). C-SPAN's American Presidents profiles the 41 Chief Executives in order--though it won't, alas, cover Grover Cleveland in two nonconsecutive broadcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Bio Sphere | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

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