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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Soon we were gagging at the fumes. The cat was panting feverishly, we were hosing down our van and our bodies with water from the truck. I had never before known how swift fire could be, and how efficient. Occasionally, the air would clear, and we would see the blue above the mountains; then the smoke was around us again, and a column of orange looming above. Someone pointed out that the one book we'd inadvertently managed to bring with us was called All the Right Places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: In The Blazing Eye of the Inferno | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

That tranquil obscurity is about to end. Earlier this month, ConAgra agreed to pay $1.3 billion to take over Beatrice, which owns an assortment of such familiar items as Hunt's tomato products, Wesson oils, Swift meats and Orville Redenbacher's popcorn. With combined sales that may reach $21 billion this year, ConAgra has become the No. 2 food company in the U.S., second only to the Kraft General Foods subsidiary of Philip Morris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Food Giant's Big Appetite | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...strategy of the federal agencies to stall for time by continually asking for more studies on the owl. "I've seen how the games are played," says Forsman. BLM in particular ignored repeated alarms. As < early as 1976, BLM biologist Mayo Call warned his superiors that unless swift action was taken to protect the owl, it might one day have to be put on the endangered-species list, curtailing timber harvests on federal lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Owl vs Man | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

While a tax surcharge would be politically unpopular, it would be swift in its work. When the last failed S&L was closed and the last offender jailed, the scandal would finally be over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Ole Bad Boy | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...cases, the suspects died or committed suicide, and 28 cases were ruled justifiable.) Those killings, along with 233 suicides and gun-related accidents, were chronicled in a 28-page TIME cover story, "Death by Gun." Their status a year later demonstrates that justice in the U.S. is neither swift nor certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death by Gun: One Year Later | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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