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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raid "made little if any impact on the availability of cocaine that we have been able to measure. There was a big jump in wholesale prices after Sylmar, but in the long term the street price and purity of cocaine remained essentially constant. It didn't make a dent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War on Drugs: A Losing Battle | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...feminist perspective, is just how little has changed. The fact that law is no longer classified as a "nontraditional" occupation for women has not made our culture any less graspingly litigious or any more concerned with the rights of the underdog. Women doctors haven't made a dent in the high-tech, bottom-line fixation of the medical profession, and no one would claim that the influx of executive women has ushered in a new era of high-toned business ethics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road To Equality: Sorry, Sisters, This Is Not the Revolution | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...prosecutions, the Cosa Nostra -- and particularly the Genovese branch -- is showing few signs of abandoning these businesses, which today are far more lucrative than such traditional vices as gambling and loan-sharking. "In terms of the Genovese family, I'm afraid we haven't even made a dent," concedes investigator Coffey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Crime: The Underworld Is Their Oyster | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

THEY were much more than a faceless squad at the top of the standings. These were individuals. There was Bucky Dent at short, with his trademark black shadow under his eyes. Everybody loved Bucky. The girls dropped dead at the mention of his name and wore their "I Love Bucky" T-shirts all around town. I loved him for his rare but timely shot over the Green Monster in Fenway which destroyed Boston's pennant dreams...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: The Last of the Lot | 8/7/1990 | See Source »

...sector. And just last Friday master strategist Whitey Herzog suddenly quit after eleven years as skipper of the St. Louis Cardinals. Earlier in the season Davey Johnson, who led the New York Mets to a World Championship in 1986, was terminated despite a career winning percentage of .593. Bucky Dent was the latest casualty of the mercurial reign of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who must believe that God loves Yankee managers since he made so many of them. And in Atlanta's answer to Watergate, Russ Nixon was fired to cover up the failure of Braves owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Get Rid of the Manager! | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

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