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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...justice, women are less concerned about abstract rights or wrongs and more interested in finding compromises that maintain the social contract. In her provocative 1982 book In a Different Voice, Gilligan offered an example. A boy and a girl, both 11, were asked whether a poor man should steal a drug that would save his wife's life. Yes, said the boy, because human life is worth more than property. No, said the girl, who suggested that he borrow the money or work out a payment schedule with the druggist. Her reasoning: If the man stole, he might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Self & Society: Coming From A Different Place | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

Saturn may also lure customers away from other GM products, especially its highly successful Geo line, which is made with partners Suzuki and Toyota. "They're not going to steal market share from the Japanese," says Paul Lienert, editor of Automotive Industries' Insider, a trade newsletter. "It's more likely that they'll cannibalize other GM products, so for the company it will be a net wash in market share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right Stuff: Does U.S. Industry Have It? | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Then you might be stuck. Join a support group and steal a PAC code...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Long-Distance Romance Hell | 10/23/1990 | See Source »

...bargains. At an auction in Anchorage to sell off surplus equipment that Exxon used in cleanup operations, buyers bid on acres of items ranging from animal shampoo to mobile homes to microwave ovens. Four 18-ft. boats sold for $3,750. Other items were less than a steal: four used TV sets sold for a total of $2,000. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers International, a Vancouver, B.C., firm that bought the surplus gear from Exxon, collected $3.8 million on the first day of the four-day auction. The oil company, which will send experts back to Prince William Sound next spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUCTIONS: What Am I Bid For the Slick? | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

Hard Work Cheat, Steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newtspeak For Neophytes | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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