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...didn't witness it first hand, but apparently they were both really drunk...I don't think it was prearranged or anything, it was more a spur of the moment thing," said Dunster resident Daniel R. McConville...

Author: By Jennifer L. Burns, | Title: Dunster Tops Sex Poll | 10/8/1993 | See Source »

...Clintons' true goal is the most ambitious of all, a change in the culture of dying. "That's why Hillary's talking up living wills and advance directives," says an Administration official. "She hopes to spur others to get comfortable with pulling the plug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Pulling the Plug | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

Foley's Wall Street winning streak places him in a charmed circle of investors who are cashing in on today's supercharged IPO market. Buoyed by low interest rates that spur investors to seek higher returns in stocks, American companies are raising record amounts of capital that should make 1993 the biggest year ever for IPOs. So far, more than $20 billion has been raised in IPOs this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stock Deals for the Rich and Famous | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...while they can make life at the top of a Harvard teaching hospital difficult, they may also be the spur to the kind of value savings that everyone hopes...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: How Does One Get Five Very Different Suitors to the Table? | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

...Klux Klan, so notorious for their use of the rope and the gun, comes close." An FBI source has told TIME that one of the juvenile members of the Fourth Reich Skinheads arrested last week is being charged with a pipe-bomb attack against a member of the "Spur Posse," the gang of teenage boys in Lakewood, California, that won notoriety earlier this year for awarding points among themselves for sexual conquests. According to an affidavit, the Spur Posse member was targeted partly because he was half Asian and half Mexican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today Los Angeles, Tomorrow . . . | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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