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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Louisiana's legislature is considering a bill that would authorize up to 15 paddle-wheel gambling boats. Governor Buddy Roemer supports the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: River Towns Take a Risky Gamble | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...protective gear available, a majority of bladers prefer to breeze along unpadded. The most feared injuries are to the head, yet few bladers will deign to don helmets. "They're hot inside and mess up your hair," says Neil Feineman, author of a how-to book for skaters entitled Wheel Excitement. Although he always wears a helmet in street traffic, Feineman adds, "They're hard on the Walkmans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roller Blades: Whiz! Zoom! Crash! Ouch! | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...clock trading at the N.Y.S.E. -- an experimental two-year extension of trading hours beyond the 4 o'clock close. Starting June 13, individual investors will be able to buy and sell stocks up to 5 p.m. at 4 p.m. prices, while holders of multiple-stock portfolios -- typically institutions -- will wheel and deal until 5:15. "The proposal before us may seem incremental," said Breeden, "but its effect will be felt around the world as a sign that U.S. markets are changing their habits to meet the needs of an increasingly globalized marketplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS Buying Time | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...title clearly announces the film's most significant innovation. Thelma & Louise is the first important movie to plop two women in a car and send them careering down open Western roads with the cops in wheel-spinning pursuit. And it is the first movie to use sexism as the motivating force for their misdeeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Postcard from the Edge | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

LITE 'N UP. Just in time for the bikini season comes a "diet survival" board game that pits players against the spinning "wheel of willpower." Beware! You may wallow indefinitely in Restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games People Play | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

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