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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spit it out of your mouth, girl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 2/6/1996 | See Source »

...control. And, above all, a population of 21 million against 1.2 billion. It would be no exaggeration for the mainlanders to claim, which some of them once did out of envy and hostility, that if each of the 1.2 billion residents in the People's Republic of China (PRC) spit into the Taiwan Strait, the island of Taiwan would be submerged. Infuriated by Taiwan President Lee Tung-hui's successful odyssey back to his alma mater. Cornell, communist leaders in the PRC conducted two missile tests in the summer and have launched endless verbal attacks in media. In fact, some...

Author: By Xiaomeng Tong, | Title: Bridging the Two Chinas | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...victory, gave a few cheers and disbanded. Askins had moved to Moose, Wyoming, in 1981 with the idea of helping get gray wolves re-established in Yellowstone National Park. The process, she thought, might take two or three years. It took a decade more than that of gentle persuasion, spit-flying argument, rear-guard lawsuits by wolf opponents, and 83 public hearings, "alternative-scoping open houses" and the like conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. But in early April, three widely separated pens were opened. The radio-collared wolves, three distinct packs trapped in Alberta, Canada, stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARTH DAY BLUES | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...amazing. I started seeing shooting sparks and I was, like, dude, this was amazing. But it was kind of scary at first because I thought I was gonna die becauseI had heard about those poisonous frogs in Manila that people lick, and it's toxic and stuff, or frogs spit on them or something? I thought "oh man, I would die like this," but then I didn't. Then I kind of kept a look out for these little frogs outside my blue window. A lot of people didn't believe me, and the others were, like...

Author: By Meredith K. Broussard, | Title: CYBER SAFARI | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...detailed description of Buffett's modus operandi has caused a bit of confusion among Buffett followers. Inspired by the book, a number cruncher at Standard & Poor's took all the attributes of a Buffett-type investment (consistent profitability, high return on equity, etc.) and programmed a computer to spit out the names of the companies that qualified. Thirty did, but only two of those stocks are actually found in Buffett's portfolio at Berkshire Hathaway. As the Standard & Poor's computer sees it, most of Buffett's biggest holdings, with the exception of U.S. Tobacco and Coca-Cola, shouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW SMART IS WARREN BUFFETT? | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

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