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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's the smell of the bodies at the crime scene that makes Marge puke, you're wrong. It's morning sickness. Marge may look as innocent as the child inside her and she probably is. But she's also tough and smart. She's a pregnant version of Philip Marlowe but with more charisma. With acute intuition Marge quickly traces Jerry to Carl and Gaear. More tenacious than the average pit bull, it is only matter of time before Marge has them behind bars...
...plane was a T-43--the military version of a Boeing 737. The 23-year-old plane was used during the recent trip to the Balkans by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea...
...that there would be tanks outside my apartment firing into Sarajevo," Kruno said. By the time the realization of danger set in, it was too late: tanks, guns and barricades would seal off Sarajevo for the next 43 months. The Oprhals, trapped inside their apartment, suffered a smaller-scale version of the city's long torment...
WHEN SPRING COMES TO THE CITIES OF JAPAN, salarymen dutifully assemble under cherry blossoms, and drunkenly bawl songs in what is really only a quainter version of St. Patrick's Day. In the fall, supermarkets hang paper leaves from their cash registers, and cigarette makers issue packages featuring autumn colors. To a jaded foreigner such an observation can seem as formulaic and debased as the Muzaked versions of Jingle Bells that torment every department store from Bangor to Bangkok...
...medical malpractice awards and a system of tax-deductible, individual savings accounts to cover medical expenses. The White House says those provisions could cause insurance costs to rise for millions of Americans, while younger, healthy individuals receive a tax break. The Senate will take up a scaled-down version of the bill supported by both parties next month. House Speaker Newt Gingrich indicated Republicans would remove some of the more controversial provisions to avoid a presidential veto. Republicans are hoping to capitalize on the passage in the upcoming election by contrasting their ability to reform health care with President Clinton...