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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is a strange, nervous quiet too from much of Aiken's African-American community, which makes up 45% of the town. While prayer services in local black churches have been held for the cause, anxiety levels are higher now that the couple has become a driving force in the lawsuit against Westinghouse, charging that blacks, who constitute about 22% of the 11,500 employees, have systematically been denied promotions and been kept at the most hazardous jobs. Only 400 of the site's 2,500 minority employees have joined the Hightowers. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aiken, South Carolina: High Tension In A Company Town | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...probably no accident that when the two men were introduced to the press, with Lewinsky beaming confidently behind them, Stein was wearing a necktie in place of his trademark bow. Ginsburg favored bow ties too. The new guys want to signal a new approach. Stein is bookish and quiet, an intellectual who files intricately thought-out but simply expressed motions. Cacheris is a backslapper who gets along well with prosecutors. Don't expect them to operate as Lewinsky's Libido Liberation Front. What both men are famous for, in their different ways, is getting high-profile Washington defendants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Partners And Dance | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

GIORGIO ARMANI Deconstructed but never lax looking, suits from the Italian master came to signify spare elegance in the '80s and '90s, not to mention a quiet, confident sense of power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 100 Years of Fashion: The Century's Style File | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Susan C. Eaton '79, secretary of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association (RCAA), says Wilson's tenure has been marked by "a quiet style of leadership," but she says this is a result of Wilson's desire to appease competing sides...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Chemist Focuses on Research, Not Undergraduates | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...months to follow, the spotlightrarely left for long. On Dec. 7, a quiet Tuesdaynight in the slow time between Thanksgiving andChristmas, the Norwalk virus hit its first wave ofvictims, as first-years from Canaday toPennypacker quickly became...

Author: By David L. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: This Is Our Harvard | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

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