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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past few years, however, the economic upper hand has shifted more toward oil-consuming countries. Asian economies have slowed, decreasing demand, forcing oil-producing nations to vie for market share by exporting more oil at lower prices. One significant effect of the falling prices is the decline of the U.S. oil industry, which is unable to produce oil so cheaply. According to the New York Times, the U.S. now produces 6.4 million barrels of oil daily, as opposed to 9.2 million...

Author: By Amos C. Kenigsberg, | Title: Drowning Ourselves in Black Gold | 2/9/1999 | See Source »

After some tough matches early on gave Penn the upper hand, DeNunzio, ranked No. 9, ignited a potential comeback by putting Harvard on the board with an impressive win over 14th ranked Quaker tri-captain Mark Piotrowsky...

Author: By Jodie L. Pearl, SPECIAL THE CRIMSON | Title: No. 27 Wrestling Splits Weekend Ivy Road Trip | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...Avenue in downtown Manhattan. There's a benefit here tonight for the Refugee Project, a nonprofit organization Lauryn Hill founded to encourage social activism among urban youth. Hill is here, and the cameras are flashing. Her musical performance on Saturday Night Live has boosted her album back to the upper reaches of the charts. In a few days she will receive 10 Grammy nominations, the most ever by a female artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop Nation | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...have not always agreed with the policies of Epps, but the importance of an official student advocate in the upper echelons of the administration cannot be understated. The life of a Harvard undergraduate is a complicated affair. It has long been a shared supposition on this campus that life here in Cambridge is no cup of tea. Now we have statistics to prove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Student's Dean | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...days, I'll admit, when any number of people were admitted to such institutions without having shown any evidence of carrying smart-kid genes even in trace elements. Somehow, most of these dimmer bulbs managed to graduate--every class needs a lower third in order to have an upper two-thirds--and somehow most of them are now millionaires on Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: One Egg (Ph.D. Pref.) | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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