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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dikembe Mutombo has broken two noses in three games. Charles Barkley was fined $5,000 for "directing obscene language" at the Forum crowd. Steve Smith and Kendall Gill carried an on-court scrap into the tunnel at the Georgia Dome, earning each a $2,500 hit in the paycheck...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Bring Back the Lockout! | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

...problem was that for too long they worked on only one model. Although people told him to diversify, Henry Ford had developed tunnel vision. He basically started saying "to hell with the customer," who can have any color as long as it's black. He didn't bring out a new design until the Model A in '27, and by then GM was gaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driving Force: Henry Ford | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...CHRYSLER AIRFLOW It was the first car designed with the help of a wind tunnel and the first with a fully streamlined body. Chrysler put the engine over the front axle and moved the passenger cabin forward to create a more comfortable ride, a design still used in today's sedans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cars That Mattered | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...took the company into pipeline construction. Later he helped pioneer the now common "turnkey" construction contract, under which Bechtel would design a project, build it, and turn it over to the owner by a set date, for a fixed fee. In 1959 he helped produce a study for a tunnel under the English Channel, a project finally realized this decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephen Bechtel: Global Builder | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Napoleon thought of one, but not until 192 years later would a tunnel under the Channel linking England and the Continent be finished. Beginning on their respective shores, teams of French and English sandhogs used 1,000-ton boring machines to burrow through the 24 miles of chalk, clearing 20 million tons. The two sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monuments of the Age | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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