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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threshold of the biblical life-span of threescore years and ten, L. (for Lewis) William Seidman has reached the enviable state of not having to prove anything to anybody. He does not need to make a lot of money because he's already a millionaire, with houses in Georgetown and on Nantucket and a 15,000-acre cattle ranch in New Mexico. He doesn't need to show he's fit because he still does 50 push-ups before work every morning. ("After you've done that, anything else for the rest of the day is a pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Crisis in Banking: The Trail Boss of the Bailout | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

...should investigate the feasibility of installing galvanometers and hot water flow guages in individual suites. Then the University could directly bill rooming groups only for the energy they actually use. If monthly billing is deemed too inefficient, Harvard could levy a special surcharge on students who exceed a maximum threshold...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: What Jack Kemp Could Teach PBH | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...demonstrators said that when the gay activists' picketed the cathedral they were "crossing the revulsion threshold...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Catholic Students Protest Tactics of Gay Activists | 11/30/1990 | See Source »

...explosion of office seekers in California may have been due, in part, to the state's low threshold for boredom. "A woman candidate is automatically more interesting," says William Schneider, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, "a flash of fuchsia in a sea of gray." Pollster Field says when people sense that "politically, things are going to hell in a hand basket," a woman candidate becomes more appealing: "By not being part of the problem, she comes across as part of the solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Our Turn | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...White House has apparently drawn the same conclusion. "Pakistan has gone past the line used by Congress and the Administration to define possession," says a senior U.S. diplomat. "They keep saying one thing and doing another and getting caught." Spector believes that the threshold Pakistan crossed was turning enriched uranium into metal cores needed for bombs, which it did last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Control: Two Tales of Skulduggery | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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