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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...financing scheme puts the city "at total risk, " O'Brien conceded, since a complex medical procedure could easily wipe out the expected $180 to $212 monthly payments...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Healy Announces Revamping of City Health Care System | 2/3/1995 | See Source »

Hanselman became so emotional at the end of his speech that he had to pause several times to wipe away tears and regain his composure before concluding...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: Council President Hanselman Says He Won't Run Again | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...matter how hard such programs are bashed by conservatives, it doesn't alter the fact that public broadcasting has produced a virtual treasure chest of documentaries dealing with the humanities, politics and the sciences. What Gingrich has forgotten in his unrelenting zeal to wipe out the "liberal media" is that more than a million children in his home state of Georgia actually learn reading and language skills through the programs broadcast by the Children's Television Workshop...

Author: By Hallie Z. Levine, | Title: Don't Bully Big Bird | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...know if it will be a good thing or a bad thing," Gustafson said about the lockout which threatens to wipe out the 1994-1995 NHL season. "It concerns all of us graduating next year, especially if things don't get cleared up by the end of this season...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: From Birth to Beanpot, Gustafson Carries Stick | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...arms. The Ku Klux Klan, for example -- born as a social club and quickly evolving into a militia, recruiting members through appeals to patriotism -- still thrives on hatred of blacks, Jews, Roman Catholics and foreigners. The moribund Posse Comitatus, a militant group based in the Farm Belt, wanted to wipe out the tax collectors. The patriots, by contrast, have a more generalized fear of Big Government, which they say is rapidly robbing individuals of their inalienable rights, chief among them the right to bear arms. Patriots were particularly enraged when Congress passed a crime bill last August that banned assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patriot Games | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

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