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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, it promotes equal representation of minorities and eliminates the gerrymandering and redrawing of single-seat districts, replacing these districts with one multi-member district that proportionally elects a number of candidates. This characteristic is paramount in light of the Supreme Court's ruling in Miller v. Johnson, which struck down race-conscious districting as unconstitutional. Proportional representation is a racially nonbiased means of accomplishing representative minority presence within our political institutions and can serve to convince minority voters of the purpose and value of their votes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Better Way Than One Man, One Vote | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...owners of Dollar-a-Pound created the Garment District in 1987, after Dollar-a-Pound started consigning funkier items that could go for more than, well, a dollar a pound...

Author: By Carol J. Garvan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Garment District: Heaven in a Pile of Clothes at Cambridge's Vintage Mart | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

Still, considering the rage over vintage clothing, customers say The Garment District has not raised prices as much as other consignment shops...

Author: By Carol J. Garvan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Garment District: Heaven in a Pile of Clothes at Cambridge's Vintage Mart | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

They seem to subscribe to the mantra of The Garment District and Dollar-a-Pound: shop happy...

Author: By Carol J. Garvan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Garment District: Heaven in a Pile of Clothes at Cambridge's Vintage Mart | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...magna cum laude in May and the other is scheduled to graduate with honors this year. It?s the two who got away who pose the problem for the Citadel ? both have filed discrimination suits. Messer?s was settled out of court last year, but on Tuesday a U.S. district judge in Columbia, S.C., announced that the academy could stand trial on civil rights charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Citadel Snaps to Attention | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

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