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...executive board churned out sheets upon sheets of big ideas. JP was talking color. Alicia made posters outlining a new set of deadlines. Aaron carried a clear plastic briefcase crammed with schedules, and Anna and I spent 15 straight hours attempting to revive Groovy Train in one fell swoop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Editor's Note: Plan B | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

That's not a prediction. Please. But Microsoft stock rarely falls far or long before buyers swoop in. With Office 2000 released this past summer and doing well and the much anticipated Windows 2000 to be released in February, there's plenty of fuel to drive the stock higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Betting With Bill | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...figure of roughly 6 million people on Earth at the beginning of agriculture is reasonable. By 1798 the population reached 900 million. Agriculture altered how we related to the natural world and, in liberating us from the confines of the local ecosystem, removed the Malthusian lid in one fell swoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Malthus Be Right? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...corner where the appliances stood waiting to be picked up, mangled chrome reflected and embraced "eggshell" refrigerators, "ivory" stoves and "midnight" dishwashers. I moved closer to get a better look and up flew a dozen pigeons from behind one of the stoves. A minute later, they decided to swoop back down and continue their scavenging...

Author: By Ariel B. Osceola, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Down in the Dump | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...fell swoop canceling Medicaid, eliminating the chance to fix Medicare and wrecking the federal employees plan--that's quite a day's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore Unleashes on Bradley | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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