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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thoughts of the university guards who have given ten years to this place, and felt that they have been treated like garbage. Disturbing words like these can create a biased opinion in people's belief. Nothing beats using Harvard as the scapegoat and invoking its name for emotional stir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kosovo Coverage Clouded by Apathy and Laziness | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...thoughts of the university guards who have given ten years to this place, and felt that they have been treated like garbage. Disturbing words like these can create a biased opinion in people's belief. Nothing beats using Harvard as the scapegoat and invoking its name for emotional stir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...case against McDougal, along with the June 14 trial of Hillary's former law partner WEBSTER HUBBELL, are certain to stir all the old questions about Hillary's own ethics. Her name was mentioned no fewer than 36 times in the indictment against Hubbell last fall. But despite the new signal of how bumpy a ride she may face, Hillary headed off to North Africa no closer to a decision, an adviser says. "She's exactly where she was four weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000 | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...rockets are hard to hide, and as Goddard's Nells grew steadily bigger, the town of Worcester caught on. In 1929, an 11-ft. missile caused such a stir the police were called. Where there are police there is inevitably the press, and next day the local paper ran the horse-laughing headline: MOON ROCKET MISSES TARGET BY 238,799 1/2 MILES. For Goddard, the East Coast was clearly becoming a cramped place to be. In 1930, with the promise of a $100,000 grant from financier Harry Guggenheim, Goddard and his wife Esther headed west to Roswell, N.Mex., where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocket Scientist ROBERT GODDARD | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...little book sold 84,000 copies, caused a huge stir and made Keynes an instant celebrity. But its real import was to be felt decades later, after the end of World War II. Instead of repeating the mistake made almost three decades before, the U.S. and Britain bore in mind Keynes' earlier admonition. The surest pathway to a lasting peace, they then understood, was to help the vanquished rebuild. Public investing on a grand scale would create trading partners that could turn around and buy the victors' exports, and also build solid middle-class democracies in Germany, Italy and Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economist JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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