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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Flexible work arrangements and the ability to take extra time off are attractive lures in the current economy. Sometimes they give employees the chance to develop the idealistic side that earlier generations felt constrained to repress when they put on a business suit and tie. Bonnie Weisner, 34, a senior consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Fort Lee, N.J., took advantage of the firm's flextime policy because she wanted to pursue an outside interest--becoming an emergency medical technician with a volunteer ambulance corps. In September she took a 40% pay cut and went from a 55-hr. workweek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Report: Perks That Work | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

Sorry to point this out. You're probably pausing right about now to wipe a tear from your Armani suit and thinking it's pretty much curtains for the counterculture. Maybe you're thinking that you were but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass, and epochs like the 1960s are rare in human history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Counterculture | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...knit six sweaters, one of which she donated to charity due to extreme malformation. Anna L. Malsberger '00 has made six hats since she started knitting a month ago. "My next project, once I've done enough hats to keep my friends' heads warm, is to make a uni-suit for Dac Nyugen '00. But he only wants one if I can make a butt flap...

Author: By Nia C. Stephens, | Title: Everything Old is New Again: | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...flown the nest for her freshman year in college. Wolfe, slender and looking at least a decade shy of his 68 years, wears at home pretty much what he has worn in public since he became a highly visible Manhattan journalist in the '60s: a trademark white suit and vest, a high-necked blue-and-white-striped shirt complemented by a creamy silk necktie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tom Wolfe: A Man In Full | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...agency, the Yankees could be broken up and sold for parts. Maybe that's why, in the locker room after the team clinched the Series, widely reviled owner George Steinbrenner provided one of the most frightening moments on network television: standing in his white turtleneck and double-breasted blue suit, his voice cracking, he tried to force a tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest Ever? | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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