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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growth"--that is, roughly what the U.S. could expect to average over a long period. Sinai, however, belongs to a "new economy" school that believes rising productivity makes a 3% annual average possible. Thus he views next year's likely increase to be significantly below potential--perhaps meriting the term growth recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quarterly Business Report: Close Call | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...taken from a single cow's ovaries and fallopian tubes. Those cells--all carrying the same genetic payload--were introduced into cow ova whose genes had been scooped away. Ten such identical embryos were then implanted in the wombs of surrogate cow mothers, and all but two came to term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Clone a Herd | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

Except through the lawsuits that have been filed, most of the sick remain silent; $20 an hour is hard to find in San Antonio, not to mention profit sharing. "We went over the billion-dollar mark [in revenues] in June of this year," says a long-term employee who has the full array of symptoms, including memory loss and "a thing on my leg." It's "bigger than a silver dollar now," she says. "I just wish they knew how many people in this building are sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Place Makes Me Sick | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

Allegation 5: that to dodge the alleged draft, Frank told his draft board he was terrified of crowds and got really nervous around elevators, and was subsequently labeled psychoneurotic (a lay term for what psychiatrists call "cuckoo-nutso"). O.K., this one is completely true. And if you don't believe me, just ask any of his ex-wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ol' Black-and-Blue Eyes | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...insist that where Bob Livingston went, he will not follow. Flanked by his wife, Al Gore and dozens of House Democrats on the South Lawn just hours after his impeachment, Clinton promised to remain in the White House until "the last hour of the last day of my term." Citing both the nation?s business and the people?s will as reasons to stay on, Clinton thanked the Democrats for their honor and said that the only question is "what are we going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Besieged, the President Vows to Fight On | 12/19/1998 | See Source »

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