The Nineties in America - Salem Press (2009)
I Illegal immigration Definition Entry of persons in violation of U.S. immigration laws During the decade, approximately half ...
smuggling illegal immigrants into the country and for producing or using fraudulent documents. The new law also limited the abil ...
of visas were distinguished—employment-based, family-sponsored, and a new category called “diver- sity visas”—and each had numer ...
ally in the mid-1990’s, declined to 150,000 per year in the late 1990’s, and climbed to 200,000 annually by the new century. Bet ...
Inequalities. Toronto: Oxford University Press, An examination of the impact of the multi- cultural policy on group status and ...
states with large numbers of illegal immigrants soon followed California’s lead. In 1996, the U.S. Senate not only voted overwhe ...
Alan Grier, and Tommy Davidson. The show’s hip-hop dance troupe, the Fly Girls, included Jennifer Lo- pez, who became a popular ...
were one-third higher than those of Newfoundland and New Brunswick. Quebec’s per capita income was below the national average bu ...
finds that disposable personal income per capita in 2000 prices averaged $21,281 in 1990 and rose to $24,564 in 1999, an increas ...
Despite these results, the number and percent of persons in poverty declined over the decade. In 1990, 13.5 percent of people we ...
In the 1990’s, independent films escalated into a cin- ema of diversity that included a great variety of voices and perspectives ...
Scorsese, Martin.Scorsese on Scorsese. Rev. ed. Lon- don: Faber & Faber, 2003. Book of interviews with Scorsese, who tells o ...
Intelligent design movement Definition Neocreationist campaign to convince educators and others of a purposeful universe Insti ...
public debate between prominent Darwinian evolu- tionists and neocreationists. In 2005, several people in this debate were calle ...
movement of data over the network using routers. Several successful implementations of TCP/IP net- works were produced during th ...
tocol suite made during the 1990’s was HTTP, pro- posed by Berners-Lee in 1989 and implemented by him at CERN in 1992. This simp ...
the Mosaic browser by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina in 1993, the development of Netscape Naviga- tor in 1994 by Andreessen and J ...
legal disputes regarding inventions. Cor- porations and universities hired re- searchers and usually owned any inven- tions thos ...
pressed sequence tags (ESTs) to detect genes in DNA and started the Human Genome Project. By the end of the decade, Venter estab ...
other companies’ services. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Bruce A. Lehman, a copyright ex- pert, scheduled meetings at S ...
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