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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real cost of living in 1996 rose only about 1.8% rather than the 2.9% CPI increase that next year's Social Security pensions will be based on. That may seem small, but spread over trillions of dollars in government spending--about a third of which is increased in tandem with the CPI--and compounded over the years, it adds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INFLATION MYTH | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...tandem of the Common Application and the Harvard/Radcliffe supplement continues to work well for us," Fitzsimmons said. "[Using it] sends the message that we're not bureaucratic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admissions Office Accepts 902 for '01 | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

...giving block grants to the house committees and on raising the minimum percentage of the council's budget dedicated to grants from 60 percent to 65 percent. The 4-3 decision of the executive board overturned a decision made Friday night in favor of holding the referenda in tandem with the elections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.C. Postpones Referendum Vote | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...rookie Tracy, in tandem with Aaron Israel, led the Crimson to a NCAA berth...

Author: By Brian T. Garibaldi, | Title: Zacko vs. Presto: The Choice Looms | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

...quickly established that Brad's siblings are staggeringly mean, given to berating him in tandem with statements like: "If we put mamma in a home, she'll die, you know. And it'll be all your fault." But other than this single, salient feature, none of the characters are clearly drawn. We know that Scott's a jerk because he's a Christian minister, which in this context is shorthand for hypocritical bastard. He's also deserving of ridicule because he refuses to have premarital sex with his dishy girlfriend Candice (India Landigran), even though, oddly, he seems to live...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Dead Babies, Geraldo and New Orleans | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

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