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Dates: during 1990-1999
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On this score I have been of two minds. On the one hand, I hate to see an extra $20 fee on the bottom of a term bill already in the tens of thousands of dollars. Over the years we've dropped most of the "a la carte" items of...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis, | Title: Raise the Council Fee | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

So why is it that tens of thousands of demonstrators from around the globe will make chilly, rainy Seattle a hot town next week--the scene of marches, teach-ins, street theater and uncivil disobedience? This vintage '60s protest fest is prompted, incongruously, by the first American gathering of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meeting: The Battle In Seattle | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

The creatively pierced, multiply tattooed teenagers who hang out at every mall in America probably don't realize it--and neither, undoubtedly, do their unsettled parents--but they belong to a tradition as old as recorded history--probably much older. Ever since our Neolithic ancestors invented art tens of thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Art | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

To the tens of thousands of servicemen and women stationed across the world, separated from their families, who allow the nation they serve to enjoy Thanksgiving Day in comfort and security. Thank you.

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Thoughts Before Turkey Dinner | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

But while the proposal is lauded by labor unions and employees rights groups, the prospect of spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars to customize a workplace to an individual worker isn't necessarily tickling industry leaders. Business leaders predict that the reforms, which would cover 27 million workers at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Light at the End of the Carpal Tunnel? | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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