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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...draconian 'one strike and you're out,'" he said. "It will take time to change the student culture...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner and James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Area Schools Join to Fight Binge Drinking | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

...series of surprise inspections Tuesday, testing Iraqi compliance ahead of Richard Butler's report to the U.N. later this week. Iraq, however, may be planning a new, risky gambit. "Iraq is downgrading its presence at the U.N. and may at this point actually want a U.S. military strike to boost its campaign for international support against sanctions," says Dowell. In other words, an exchange of bigger pieces may be on the horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Iraq Break the Stalemate? | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

...only Ford, determined that policy. He was violently opposed to labor organizers, whom he saw as "the worst thing that ever struck the earth," and entirely unnecessary--who, after all, knew more about taking care of his people than he? Only when he was faced with a general strike in 1941 did he finally agree to let the United Auto Workers organize a plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driving Force: Henry Ford | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...days of real industrial titans like Henry Clay Frick, recalcitrant employees could simply be killed, as they were by Frick's actions during the Homestead strike. Or spied on in their homes, as they were by Henry Ford. What good is having power if you can't abuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosses From Hell | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...More worrying for Arafat is the fact that thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israel have launched a hunger strike. "The prisoners believe the Palestinian Authority has sold them out, and this is a big opportunity for Hamas and other opposition groups to seize the initiative," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. Indeed, some demonstrations over the weekend targeted Arafat's negotiators. The protests may help Arafat press his case right now, but it's unlikely that the 3,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israel will start eating again on the say-so of the man they believe led them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palestinians Target Arafat | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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