Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like a big, pink Southern rose," Lurie says. "Just her appearance was quite disruptive at first...
...perhaps, the only Southerner in our class. She brought to writing and to this New England background a feeling of soft Southern nights and lush foliage and intense romantic passions," Lurie said...
...both the trial and appellate levels, it is civil cases that have been crowded out. Civil rights cases, shareholder lawsuits, product-liability actions, medical-malpractice claims and so forth are being pushed to the back of the line, however urgent the complaints. Chief Judge J. Phil Gilbert of the southern district of Illinois went an entire year without hearing a single civil case, so overwhelmed was he by the criminal load in a jurisdiction down to two judges out of four. "It's litigants who end up paying the price for the delays," says A. Leo Levin, a professor...
...decades, scientists have recognized a distinctive belt of eight Southern states where the incidence of stroke is significantly higher than the national average. But a recent study revealed that in one portion of that region, in an area that parallels the Atlantic seaboard, strokes are even more prevalent. Dubbed the Buckle (of the Stroke Belt, that is), these 153 counties in Georgia and the Carolinas have lower average incomes than the rest of the Belt. Scientists thought there must be a relationship between poverty and stroke mortality, but the study shows that only 5% to 16% of the Belt...
UCLA (40-18-1), currently ranked seventh in the nation, received an at-large bid after losing the Pac-10 Southern division title to No. 6-Stanford. UCLA has amassed a 19-11 conference record in a conference that includes several ranked teams, including No. 10 USC and Stanford. The Bruins beat the Cardinals in four out of six games this season...