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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sometimes we have a sale well over a $1000, and sales of about $400 or $500 are not uncommon," says Byron. "People come in with their parents and buy a TV, a VCR, a refrigerator and a CD boom...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
More than 500 gangs, with some 80,000 known members, infest Los Angeles County. The best known are the Bloods and the Crips, the two largest, predominantly black gangs, and the most bitter of rivals. Bloods and Crips break down into small neighborhood sets, and it is not uncommon for one Crip group to fight another Crip group up the street, for Blood to fight Blood. There were 462 gang-related murders in 1988, 107 of them in South Central, a 43-sq.-mi. stretch of ghetto with a population of 500,000. Though the murder rate does not approach...
Lusia and I were almost buried under the load of the first few months in Moscow. I spent time preparing written responses for almost all major interviews. People passed through the house endlessly. Lusia cooked for a whole crowd. Long after midnight, it was not uncommon to find her, despite her heart attacks and her bypasses, mopping the landing -- our building is self- service -- and me still at work on a statement...
...that 60% of married couples in cities like to have sex in a variety of positions. Pan's survey indicated that nearly seven out of ten Chinese have had anal sex with heterosexual partners. Neither survey explored the extent of homosexuality, which is still taboo in China but not uncommon...