The Nineties in America - Salem Press (2009)
including the disbanding of the Street Crime Unit. Anger about Diallo’s death, nevertheless, would continue well into the twenty ...
much more common in the 1990’s, accompanying the rise of the personal computer, which along with appropriate peripherals and sof ...
was a single-lens reflex (SLR) camera that used a 1.3-megapixel sensor. It could transfer images to a charge-coupled device (CCD ...
“Digital divide” is used to describe any type of gap or disparity between those who have access to new tech- nologies and those ...
boost the size of the police department and, al- though he had inherited a thirty-year upward crime trend, to cut crime by 16 pe ...
As the 1990’s began, Bob Dole was contemplating retiring from his extensive service in the U.S. Sen- ate, where he had served si ...
lenged by Pat Buchanan, Steve Forbes, and many others. Dole was formally nominated by the Republi- can National Convention on Au ...
Domestic partnerships Identification Legal arrangements that involve two unmarried persons, either of the same or opposite sex ...
and governments offered domestic partnership benefits to their employees. In most cases, the ar- rangements were nonstatutory—th ...
sure, quickly tagged by the American media with the phrase “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue,” based on its main points. The ...
of policies of exclusion by Congressman Gerry Studds under the Freedom of Information Act, whose results (published in 1990 prio ...
Dot-coms Definition Companies that conduct business and deliver products or services primarily via the Internet and are design ...
duce steady earning power. Arrogant business trans- actions abounded as Internet companies failed to address sales ratios, inven ...
in response to online competition, and Borders Group outsourced its e-commerce activities to Ama- zon.com. Barnes & Noble tr ...
See also Amazon.com; Business and the economy in Canada; Business and the economy in the United States; Computers; Greenspan, Al ...
worth Press, 1999. Provides advice and tech- niques for companies that are undergoing the restructuring process. Chapters includ ...
American success, but attempted to emulate the feats and moves of the players on the Dream Team. Further Reading Daly, Chuck, an ...
time when established media outlets were hesitant to investi- gate or to reveal it, Matt Drudge simultaneously deter- mined the ...
Further Reading Drudge, Matt, and Julia Phillips.Drudge Manifesto. New York: New American Library, 2000. Walls, Jeannette.Dish: ...
cation was appropriately prescribed or an underdi- agnosed condition was given the television spotlight, patients benefited. How ...
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