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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administration does not regard it as true! And even if the material covered by a given A.P. course were comparable to the material in two half-courses (which I do not believe), it is plain that the gain derived from a year of college is greater than the sum of the individual courses which comprise...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: The Advanced Standing Deficit | 2/9/1999 | See Source »

Decisions about investing this huge sum will be given to some neutral body, says Clinton. Fat chance. There is no way federally appointed investors are going to pick and choose stocks without Congress or the White House pressing for choices that please political constituencies or conform to political pieties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worst Idea of the Decade | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...though, and after the first inanely repetitive 185 pages, the book succeeds in delivering a creepy sense of dread about our culture. Glamorama's contribution to the world may be the motto of its main character, a male model: The better you look, the more you see. As a sum-up of our decade, it's downright Tom Wolfean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glamorama | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...handwriting is on the wall for HMOs, and it isn't hard to read: A jury in San Bernardino, Calif., ordered Aetna U.S. Health Care of California to pay $120.5 million -- a record sum for an HMO suit -- to the wife of a man who couldn't get the company to cover his experimental cancer treatment and died. "The jury's statement is clear: Many people are just fed up with HMOs," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HMO Slammed in Record-Setting Court Case | 1/21/1999 | See Source »

...mission, no mention was made of the bloated bureaucracy at Fay House. From fiscal 1992 through fiscal 1998, Radcliffe's general and administrative expenses compounded at a 14.2 percent rate, according to the college's annual reports. These do not include the expenses for the capital campaign, a sum by the way, which has been far in excess of the norm usually spent on campaigns of its size...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scrutinizing Radcliffe's Financial Management | 1/20/1999 | See Source »

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