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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also, to answer one of the great riddles of our time: What's the big deal with racing? Essentially, 40 extremely mobile billboards circle a track for three hours, driven by men in jumpsuits that make bowling apparel look sharp. And yet car racing continues to be the hottest, fastest-growing sport in America, generating $2 billion in revenues and drawing gazillions in sponsorship money. In TV ratings, NASCAR racing blows away every major sport but pro football. With California-born Gordon as its poster boy, NASCAR is expanding beyond its Southeastern roots, going after the wine-and-cheese crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASCAR: Babes, Bordeaux & Billy Bobs | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...current decade's economic success is accompanied by a sharp decrease in national unemployment rates, and uneducated black youth are being folded into the labor market as a result...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler and Robin M. Wasserman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Rising Tide Lifts Black Job Market, Study Says | 5/28/1999 | See Source »

...been taking it very seriously," Binkowski said. "Sometimes you can take practice games nonchalantly, but Coach Walsh had us playing in uniforms, he divided us into two teams and we made it a mini-series. It's helped us to stay sharp and we're chomping at the bit to play...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Draws Waves | 5/26/1999 | See Source »

...been taking it very seriously," Binkowski said. "Sometimes you can take practice games nonchalantly, but Coach Walsh had us playing in uniforms, he divided us into two teams and we made it a mini-series. It's helped us to stay sharp and we're chomping at the bit to play...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Will Face Pepperdine in NCAA Tournament | 5/26/1999 | See Source »

STEALING HOME Sharp entrepreneurs have made a business out of selling information about foreclosed homes, promising to provide tips on bargains for a "small fee." Save your money. Finding these distressed properties has become easier now that the Department of Housing and Urban Development is listing a wide selection of foreclosed homes on the Web www.hud.gov) You can search the site by state. Just be sure to inspect the home before making a bid, so you don't end up buying someone else's problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: May 24, 1999 | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

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