Word: landmarked
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...40th anniversary of brown v. board of education on May 17 unleashed a torrent of earnest commentary on the nation's op-ed pages. Story after story deplored America's lack of racial progress since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down segregation with that landmark decision. Somehow all the hand-wringing analysis overlooked a small but telling example of how far some blacks have come during the past four decades: the case of Joseph Jett...
Blackmun, appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard M. Nixon in 1970, may be most noted for writing the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1972 case that legalized abortion...
Romney does not consider himself "pro-choice" but says he supports Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision which guaranteed a woman's right to an abortion. Lakian has said he supports abortion rights...
Rosty became chairman of Ways and Means in 1981. His tenure opened with a stinging defeat: the committee opted for Ronald Reagan's tax cuts over Rosty's opposition. But the chairman recovered to steer the landmark tax reform of 1986 past all sorts of shoals and obstacles to enactment. He has handled his colleagues adroitly, knowing just when to trade a tax break narrowly benefiting a particular committee member's constituents in return for the * member's vote on a more important matter...
...EEOC issues landmark sexual-harassment guidelines prohibiting unwelcome sexual advances or requests that are made a condition of employment, and conduct that creates a hostile work environment...