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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Business was slowed down a little bit," a station attendant told The Boston Globe, adding that sales were not affected significantly...

Author: By Maia K. Davis, | Title: Activists Picket Gas Station | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

Protesting Shell Oil's ties to the Nigerian government, 50 people shouted insults and waved signs in a demonstration at the Cambridge Shell gasoline station on Saturday afternoon...

Author: By Maia K. Davis, | Title: Activists Picket Gas Station | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

Without some poetry to dip into, after all, those in line at a vehicle-inspection station would presumably spend their time drumming impatiently on their steering wheels, muttering imprecations against bureaucracy and trying to decide whether the sound of their idling engine included a faint but ominous ping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OF LINES AND POETRY | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

...believe the literary critics call seasonal coordination. I can imagine A Visit from St. Nicholas given away in December. The Canterbury Tales might be handed out in April--unless April has been the cruelest month that year, in which case motorists would be left to sit in their station wagons staring blankly at The Waste Land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OF LINES AND POETRY | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

...includes conservatives offended by Helms' stand against AIDS research and their gay children, produced a harsh TV ad to chastise him for "distortions, half-truths and intolerance." Not words Helms wants to hear. MAJIC believes he has ensured that most North Carolinians won't hear them either. Of eight stations approached by MAJIC, only three agreed to run the ad. Others begged off on "content" or said they didn't have time. "We know that Helms has threatened to sue a number of stations if they air our spots," says Betsy Hunt of MAJIC. An executive with WRAL in Raleigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTHERS KNOW BEST? | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

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