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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton era has seen both unparalleled prosperity and unparalleled government intervention to directly protect and advance the interests of specific U.S. corporations operating in world markets. Whether it was bailing out Mexico's currency to protect U.S. institutional investors or organizing a preemptive line of credit to prevent Brazil's economy tanking under pressure from Asia, or pressing China to make a host of concessions to specific U.S. corporations in exchange for WTO membership or leaning on South Africa over importing AIDS drugs from foreign sources that sold them cheaper than U.S. pharmaceutical corporations, the Clinton administration has always been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle in Seattle: A Challenge to Politics as Usual | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

Chall also helped shape one of the most heated arguments in elementary education. Educators have argued for decades about whether children should first learn to generally understand texts that they read or if they should concentrate on phonics, or sounding out words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noted Psychologist and Education Professor Dies | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...play: "There is good, there is good/There is untapped good/Like inside, the worst of us is good." To examine the play and find it intentionally, harmfully stereotypical is not just a difference of opinion, it's a misinterpretation of the authors' intent. "West Side" is a timeless story, whether it's set in 16th-century Verona, 1950's New York or any modern city today...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: West Side Story, Untold | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...whether these counter-activists are successful is beside the point. The administration of Amherst Regional High School has taught its students an inadvertent but incredibly damaging lesson in this controversy--that protest, in the absence of explanation or discussion, can prevent free expression, performance and education...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: West Side Story, Untold | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...other hand, Franklin says she doubts whether the task force's attempts will succeed where so many others have failed...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff and Robin M. Wasserman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Women in the Sciences | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

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