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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what point does "a little" become "too much"? The nervous boy who cried "Wolf!" in the admonitory tale told one lie too many and was eaten alive. The irony of this denouement, of course, is that when the boy met his fate, he was, at last, hollering the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Political Campaign: Lies, Lies, Lies | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

Councillor Alice K. Wolf proposed that 10 percent of each individual firm's work force must live in Cambridge in order to be eligible for the loans...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Council Refuses To Debate Owners' Rent Control Report | 9/22/1992 | See Source »

Myers said Wolf's program did not go far enough, and proposed raising the 10 percent floor to 15 percent...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Council Refuses To Debate Owners' Rent Control Report | 9/22/1992 | See Source »

...burns), but far worse, the day's only meal is gone. After filling their pots, the refugees file through the gate -- they are not permitted to eat in the compound -- and settle down in side streets or dusty clearings. There they wait impatiently for the food to cool, then wolf it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: A Day in the Death of Somalia | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...asked the manager if the store was always like that on Saturdays or if this had anything to do with the tropical storm that had briefly been mentioned on the news the night before. Such lines had not been uncommon when anxious meteorologists cried wolf in the past...

Author: By Mary E. Rocha, | Title: Surviving Andrew | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

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