Word: landmarked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, which is scheduled to begin later this week. The enigmatic New Englander will be closely questioned about his judicial philosophy in what are expected to be heated, partisan sessions. In particular, some Senators will try to probe Souter's views on Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that legalized abortion. Pro-choice and some women's groups have been mobilizing against Souter, but they are unlikely to impede his progress -- unless he makes a major gaffe. "Souter is far too good a technical lawyer to get himself into trouble," says American University law professor Herman Schwartz...
Igasaki said that a report critical of Harvard would be especially damaging because the College's affirmative action program was cited as a model for admissions in the 1978 Bakke decision--the landmark Supreme Court ruling outlawing quotas...
...private schools may no longer be just a Dick-and-Jane fable. Next week more than 400 students from Milwaukee's inner city will begin attending private neighborhood academies with the aid of $2,500 grants from the state of Wisconsin. In November, Oregon will vote on a landmark initiative that would give parents as much as a $2,500 tuition tax credit for each child in a private or religiously affiliated school. Already, students statewide in Minnesota as well as in such widely praised individual school districts as Cambridge, Mass., and New York City's East Harlem can select...
...often means land in poor areas with large minority populations. And those people, burdened by drugs, poverty, crime, bad medical care and joblessness, have long been too powerless or apathetic to prevent their communities from becoming the repository of everybody else's detritus. The result, according to a landmark 1987 study by the United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice, is that 3 of every 5 black and Hispanic Americans live in areas with uncontrolled toxic-waste sites. Many of the most notorious dumping grounds are located in the South. Among the worst is "cancer alley...
...Wade before Bush faces re-election in 1992, the President will be castigated for having smuggled an abortion foe onto the court without a fair fight. Few will believe that Bush didn't know all along that Souter would affirm the Republican Party's call to gut the landmark abortion-rights decision...