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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...responsiveness of our politicians, as well as the limited role of contributions, consider Social Security and Medicare. These programs account for 35 percent of the federal budget, with an annual price tag in excess of half a trillion dollars. Many consider the spiraling cost of these entitlements a textbook case of special interest influence run amok...

Author: By Ira W. Carnahan, | Title: Ballot Box 1, Cash Box 0 | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

Weighed down by a bookbag packed so tightly that she is forced to wedge her statistics textbook under her arm, Ocon's five-foot, two-inch frame firmly grasps the carriage's top and with one quick tug manages to detach it from the body...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis and Lori I. Diamond, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Student Moms Juggle Schoolwork, Parenting | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...this semester and works five to six hours a week at the Derek Bok Learning Center for Teaching and Learning. No longer a complacent newborn, Dylan will no longer listen patiently as Payanzo reads her French homework to him. Instead, he tears out the pages from her African history textbook...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis and Lori I. Diamond, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Student Moms Juggle Schoolwork, Parenting | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...have yet to see what the Barnes & Noble takeover will do to the prices of textbooks. But the Coop must have lower textbook prices in order to accommodate students. We will be watching you, Coop. Support students like the supposed cooperative you are and keep the textbook prices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Redesigned Coop Has Unfulfilled Potential | 12/11/1997 | See Source »

DIED. JOYCE WETHERED, 96, unflappable first lady of the links; in London. Unknown and not yet 19, Wethered easily outshot Cecil Leitch at the English Ladies' championship in 1920. Her textbook swing and unswerving concentration (once, a passing steam locomotive failed to distract her eye from the ball) won her four more of those titles and four British championships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 8, 1997 | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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