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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...soon found myself stranded on a deserted road with a sunken car, a lump in my throat and a torn tire. My humiliation only deepened when I had to explain the whole incident to the mechanic at the gas station I had so cockily passed only minutes before...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Alibis, Excuses and Black Leaders | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...explain that to people subject to the 33% marginal rate. Capitalizing on the widespread impression that the bubble gives a bonanza to the mansion-and-limousine set, House Democrats led by Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski have proposed to puncture it. They would tax all income over $200,000 at the 33% rate and levy an additional 10% surcharge on income over $1,000,000. Though such hikes would apply to only about 740,000 taxpayers, the congressional joint tax committee reckons the change would bring in $4.2 billion in additional revenue in the current fiscal year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blowing Off the Bubble | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...know that charismatic leadership counts in the white world, too. How else can we explain Ronald Reagan?" joked Williams...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Panel Debates Black Churches | 10/20/1990 | See Source »

Albert Einstein was, in the last years of his life, a very frustrated man. Try as he might, the scientific genius simply could not devise a unified, consistent mathematical principle to explain the physical universe. He died in 1955, still working on the same problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: String Theorists Hunt for the `Theory of Everything' | 10/19/1990 | See Source »

...Society is supporting them in the adventure, and the least they can do is explain their findings to the society in a language which is comprehensible," newly tenured Harvard physics professor Cumrun Vafa says of his fellow string theorists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: String Theorists Hunt for the `Theory of Everything' | 10/19/1990 | See Source »

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