Word: landmarked
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Wrong. The 30-sec. spot, now airing on KRIS-TV, an NBC affiliate in Corpus Christi, Texas, is a landmark: the first deviation from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States' self-imposed ban on TV advertising, adopted in 1948. Reaction was swift. The ad "could open the airwaves to a flood of hard-liquor ads," fumed Democratic Congressman Joseph Kennedy II of Massachusetts, who is well aware that his family's fortune was fortified with liquor profits. He has introduced a bill that would not only ban TV ads for hard liquor but also restrict those for beer...
Relief came last week in a landmark ruling that firmly extends the umbrella of the First Amendment over cyberspace. A panel of three federal judges, specially convened in Philadelphia to review the new law, pronounced the government's attempt to regulate online content more closely than print or broadcast media "unconstitutional on its face" and "profoundly repugnant." The Justice Department was enjoined from not only enforcing the act but even investigating alleged malfeasance, at least...
...pathfinder.com/Netly/) Then, in the physical world, once a month he rides a few floors down in the elevator to write a story for TIME's more traditional vehicle. Having aggressively covered the progress of the Communications Decency Act for Netly, Quittner was well positioned to write about the landmark court decision this week that found the law "profoundly repugnant" and unconstitutional. "This is a story that had a lot to do with the life or death of the Web," Quittner says. "Without free speech, the Internet would have been little more than an interactive Yellow Pages...
...main avenue of opportunity in America was hardly unique to him. Hints of the concept can be found in the writings of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin (founders of the universities of Virginia and Pennsylvania), and of Abraham Lincoln, who signed into law one of this country's first landmark pieces of national social legislation, the Morrill Act of 1862, which provided "land grants" for the establishment of colleges of agriculture and engineering...
Coleman was the first African-American to serve as a clerk on the U.S. Supreme Court. He was also one of the authors of the legal briefs contributing to the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision...