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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, Premier Zhu Rongji swore to former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills that there would be no devaluation "for at least two years." Hills was stunned. She says, "I told him that's very different from just saying, 'I'm not going to devalue.' I said I think investors would like to know that. And he said, 'Yes. You can say, Not within at least two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China Next? | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...Clinton swore an oath that he Had no sex with Lew-in-sky Then she got immunity Oh, fate can be so cruel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 17, 1998 | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...Kimeses may be the biggest mother-and-son crime team since Ma Barker and her boys swore off bank robbing. The Oklahoma-born Sante, 63, has a rap sheet stretching back to the 1960s. Among her more exotic crimes: stealing a $6,500 fur at a Washington piano bar and enslaving illegal Mexican immigrants to work as maids. Kenneth has been convicted of robbery and assault. Mother and son are jointly accused of using a worthless check to buy their $14,000 Lincoln Town Car--the charge for which they are now locked up in a New York jail. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Landlady Vanishes | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...Yeah. I swore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Grodin | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...remorse about her three-year-old. On Monday, when she left her parents' house, where she has been living since dropping out of college, she promised the daughter she calls "my angel" that Mommy would be right back. Sadly, though, crank squeezes time like an accordion, and since Jennifer swore her solemn maternal oath, approximately 100 hours have passed in a sleepless, virtually food-free blur of hurried parking-lot drug deals, marathon bouts at the video poker machine and frantic cigarette runs to the mini-mart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

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