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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are a lot of changes...made in the course catalog," he said. "Every year, a supplement is issued and the course catalog needs to be updated much more frequently. Certainly by the spring semester it's out of date...
...chances, so they're easier to program, easier to manipulate. To be sure, there are some great moments on Music Box. The gospel-flavored Anytime You Need a Friend demonstrates Carey's vocal power, although too fleetingly. And the title cut is one of Carey's loveliest songs to date, with her voice humming and hovering above a tinkling, childlike melody: "And your love/ breaks away the clouds surrounding me." Such moments are too rare on this release. One gets the sense that Carey is squandering her chance at greatness, a malfunctioning probe missing her target planet, spinning into...
...verdict was a bitter disappointment for New York district attorney Robert Morgenthau, whose early zeal was a driving force behind the July 1991 seizure of the bank. Despite the setback, however, his investigation to date has yielded convictions of B.C.C.I. and its principal front man, indictments of its key executives, and forfeitures totaling $750 million...
...Brazilian gold miners have been pressing to prospect on the 37,000- sq.-mi. homeland of the Yanomami Indians. Rebuffed by the Brazilian government, which has sent police to break up their encampments, the miners apparently have turned to murderous violence against the Yanomami. In the worst outbreak to date, miners massacred more than 30 members of the tribe last week, including 10 children, some of whom were decapitated by machetes. International outcry over the killings could lead to trouble for Brazil in its requests for loans from international lenders...
...results had been rigged. While that may have served as part of a cold war strategy to deceive the Soviets into spending their way into oblivion to counter SDI, similar misinformation was provided to Congress to persuade it to fund the program with huge sums -- $31 billion to date. Clearly stung, Defense Secretary Les Aspin, a former Congressman, ordered an internal investigation at the Pentagon. Said he: "Any allegation that the Congress has been misled raises serious questions." Said Senator David Pryor, whose long-standing probe of SDI seems to have triggered the revelations: "It could totally discredit the testing...