Word: personation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Court heard Swain v. Alabama which tried to raise the same question. A 19-year-old Black man had been sentenced to death by an all-white jury. His attorneys argued that not only was this unfair, but that no Black person "within the memory of persons now living [had] ever served on an petit jury in any civil or criminal case tried in Talladega County, Alabama." This was in spite of the fact that "of the group designated by Alabama as generally eligible for jury service in that county, 74 percent (12,125) were white and 26 percent...
...Maia was basically the only person on the team with experience," Schossberger says. "She was the backbone of the team. She is a type of person that makes everyone else around her better...
...jeans for school. On the wall hangs a prayer: "Lord, help me to realize that nothing can happen today that you and I can't handle." Scott's wife D'Andrea tries to comfort him after each racial incident by saying, "Don't worry about it, that person was sick...
WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE PITS PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS? Trading volume at the Chicago Board Options Exchange has plunged 43% in the first eight months of 1988, compared with the same period the previous year. During the bull market, the exchange had boomed partly because stock investors had hedged their Wall Street bets by buying options contracts. But now business is so slow that 150 of the exchange's 1,200 employees have been given severance packages. One of the most renowned traders on the exchange, Jack Keller, 45, has moved his family back...
...Bangkok restaurant every night for 30 years and still not exhaust the city's repertoire. Nor are these mere holes-in-the-wall. Many are landscaped garden restaurants with pavilions strung with lights and lotus ponds at their center. Dinner at such a palace will cost perhaps $8 a person. As for postprandial appetites, they are taken care of in a night world as treacherously bewitching as any on earth -- one winking neon blur of bars and discos and imperial, four-story massage parlors...