Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that black jurors go easy on black defendants solely due to race. In heavily black jurisdictions such as Washington, mostly black juries routinely send African-American defendants to prison when the evidence merits it. History shows that from Mississippi during the civil rights era to Simi Valley in the '90s, it is all-white juries that tend to exonerate defendants of their own race despite the evidence...
...salary survey. This year, 1994-95, salary increases were 0.7 percent when adjusted for inflation," said Iris Molotsky, spokesperson for the College and University Personnel Association. "It marked the first time in the '90s that real salaries have risen in two consecutive years...
...more interesting cultural developments of the '90s is America's fascination with drag queens. Stemming from the blond wig and impossibly long legs of ubiquitous model-cum-disco diva, Rupaul, and the popularity of last year's fantastic, flip-flop-dress-filled Australian import, "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," the popularity of drag now includes huge numbers of non-traditional (i.e. straight) fans...
...novel in five years (she has published one collection of short stories since 1990's Picturing Will), and so a real disappointment. She was an authentic voice of the late 1970s and '80s, with a particular talent for detail and dialogue. Can it be that, five years into the '90s, Beattie's technique of constructing character by naming and labeling is dated? That, unfortunately, is the verdict on this book...
...that of the author. Ramus, a wan Alec Baldwin look-alike, is a first-time novelist with a potential best seller in his future, and also a possible prison sentence. Like his protagonist, in the '80s he was an art dealer with a fondness for heroin. By the '90s he had overcome his drug problems, but questionable business dealings left him with a $4 million debt and allegations of fraud...