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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...energy and the environment, but he also said, "There is nothing in the U.S. position to suggest it has a policy of inhibiting China's economic growth." Albright emphasized how important it was for China to pay a larger contribution to the U.N. Jiang broke into English to retort, "You are a rich country; we are a poor country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT CLINTON AND JIANG SAID IN PRIVATE | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...says, "So how does it feel?" This moment in Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men packs such a sick smack that at a showing at the Samuel Goldwyn Pavilion in West Los Angeles last week, a woman gasped and shook her head in disgust; another, supplying a retort for Christine, said, "I feel like cutting your cojones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CAUTION: MALE FRAUD | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...maybe he's saying he'd rather put up with a cold snap in June than be burned, literally, at the stake in December. In which case, I have a retort for him that is snappy enough for summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOL SUMMER: TOO DARN HOT: A DISSENTER'S VIEW | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...talents while freeing him for larger projects--like the two-year collaboration with Nelson Mandela that produced Mandela's 1994 autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. Now Stengel is back as a senior writer, traveling with the presidential candidates and taking the nation's pulse. This week's contribution: a retort to Robert Putnam's 1995 essay "Bowling Alone" called "Bowling Together." But Stengel hasn't lost his appetite for outside projects; starting this week he will be a regular political commentator on the new MSNBC Cable news network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Jul. 22, 1996 | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...minimum wage. Then, minutes later, C-SPAN--the All Dole All the Time network when the Senate is in session--showed the majority leader rebutting the President. Internet Websites like TIME-CNN's AllPolitics http:www.allpolitics.com/ routinely include the full text of campaign speeches. But advocates are quick to retort that a third of U.S. households don't have cable and many that have it don't tune in to public-affairs shows. The point is to reach the audience that has dropped out, which is why Taylor was hoping for a five-minute lead-in to Friends instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISSUES '96: THE SCREEN TEST | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

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