Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-story house, built in 1840 by Oliver Hastings, is registered in the National Register as a historical landmark. Hastings also constructed the Core Office Building at 38 Kirkland St. The two buildings are classics of the American Greek Revival style, Knuff said...
...member of a special American Psychological Association panel on abortion, told legislators that after a review of the same data, the group had concluded that abortion inflicts no particular psychological damage on women. She pointed out that despite the millions of women who have undergone the procedure since the landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion in 1973, there has been no accompanying rise in mental illness. "If severe reactions were common," she noted, "there would be an epidemic of women seeking treatment...
...landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court stood firmly behind education as one of the pillars of our society: "Education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments...In these days it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he or she is denied the opportunity of an education...
...college," says Lieut. Colonel John Cullen, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command. Still, the Department of Defense next month plans to argue in favor of overturning a 1988 federal-court decision that would allow antiwar activists equal access to career days in Atlanta high schools. In a landmark case five years ago, an interfaith peace and justice group called Clergy and Laity Concerned won the right to promote its cause among Chicago high school students. Yet in San Diego, the site of a large naval installation, the Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities has found little resistance...
...local and government support for A.C.T. dropped, and the company built up a $1.5 million deficit. In trying to close the gap, Ball increasingly favored small casts and minimal sets, leading to productions that seemed skimpy in the 1,396-seat Geary Theater, an ornately paneled and columned 1910 landmark where A.C.T. has played for more than two decades. Says Edward Hastings, a director since A.C.T.'s inception and Ball's successor as artistic director: "Bill's obsession with the deficit took over from artistic considerations, and that was not healthy for the company, although there were some wonderful productions...