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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their relief, Buchanan was a self-canceling phenomenon. His protectionism turned off as many workers as it attracted. And coyly bigoted formulations had been embedded in his language for so long that his warnings against greedy corporate chiefs got lost in his self-produced clouds of static. But Buchanan's flourish was one more warning to Dole that his party is a breakable coalition, subject to passions its leadership can't always manage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: WHERE'S THE PARTY? | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...will be studying the plane's metal surfaces for tiny pitting that could have been caused by an explosion that would have melted tiny pieces of metal and sent them, and other tiny bits of debris, shooting around like buckshot. Says a bomb specialist: "It's a high-speed phenomenon, faster than the speed of a plane crashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IF IT WAS A BOMB, THEN WHODUNIT? | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

Bomb blasts around the world, from Saudi Arabia to Long Island to Atlanta, have rocked the nation. Citizens across the country are beginning to realize that terrorism is not a phenomenon limited to the rest of the world. Harvard University, in fact, might be an excellent target, with its high-profile and easy access. And the community is left to wonder...Crimson/File Photo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terrorism: Could It Happen Here? | 8/2/1996 | See Source »

...terrorists. The world, and the United States for that matter, has seen the worst spate of terrorist activity in history, just in the last few years. The bombings at the World Trade Center and in Oklahoma City shocked a country used to thinking of terrorism as a Middle Eastern phenomenon which occasionally makes a detour through Europe. Now we have a replay of Pan Am 103 on our own coastline. If a bomb was responsible, we can safely say that terrorism has been imported to the United States, and where it will stop, nobody knows. This week, President Clinton unveiled...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: A Postmortem on the TWA Crash | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

They're a funny group, these commuters. There's a sleeping group, a reading group and a drinking group (this is mostly a Friday phenomenon, I'm told...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: The Allure of the Countryside | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

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