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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...editor-in-chief of Columbia's daily student newspaper resigned last week after allegedly pulling a fire alarm to stage a photo of a fire truck in action...

Author: By Abigail R. Branch, | Title: Spectator Editor-in-Chief Resigns | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...feds came down hard against the nation's top automaker, targeting General Motors' controversial full-size pickup. Transportation Secretary Federico Pena announced today that C and K series models of that truck made from 1973 to 1987 pose an unreasonable safety risk. The location of the gas tank outside of the main-body rails makes the vehicles vulnerable to fires in side-impact collisions, officials say. The finding could lead to a government-ordered recall later this year of the 4.5 to 6.3 million such vehicles that are on the road, which could cost $1 billion. The government action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM TRUCK SAFETY QUESTIONED | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...Caterpillar vice president Siegfried Ramseyer argues that American workers will come out ahead in the end: by launching joint ventures in China, the company will create a larger market for, say, Caterpillar's 240-ton truck, which is currently made in Decatur, Illinois. This, he says, is a long- standing strategy. "Wherever in the world we went to manufacture, we exported more from America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Asia Now, Pay Later | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

...drama. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is based on 220 interviews that she conducted with Los Angeles residents of every race and economic class after the city's devastating riot in 1992. Onstage Smith employs her formidable talent for mimicry to portray such characters as Reginald Denny, the white truck driver who was almost beaten to death by black gang members, police chief Daryl Gates and a Korean store owner -- all in their own words. The result is a painful, multifaceted portrait of racial differences. Says Smith: "My work is both political and personal. I'm trying to resolve this problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beauty of Black Art | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

Eager to please, Coppersmith and Band Director Thomas G. Everett, who holds that title to this day, helped the Brown students load the drum into their pick-up truck...

Author: By Jeremy L. Mccarter, | Title: Harvard Band Still Crazy After 75 Long Years | 10/1/1994 | See Source »

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