Word: landmarked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...structures that existed 15 billion years ago. That was just about the moment -- or more precisely, an infinitesimal 300,000 years after the moment -- that the universe was born. What the researchers found was at once both amazing and expected: NASA'S Cosmic Background Explorer satellite -- COBE -- had discovered landmark evidence that the universe did in fact begin with the primeval explosion that has become known as the Big Bang...
...some Californians, Proposition 13, a landmark tax-cutting initiative, destroyed the perception that Brown was a man of his word. Brown opposed the measure vigorously, but when it passed overwhelmingly in June 1978, the governor did an about-face...
That is why I had such great hopes for Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the new home of the American League's Baltimore Orioles and the most ballyhooed new landmark since the Colossus at Rhodes...
...dauntingly ambitious: to chart a course that will halt the steady degradation of the earth's air, land and water and protect the multitudes of animals and plants threatened with extinction. The organizers of the meeting, officially called the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, intend to produce several landmark documents, including an Earth Charter (a set of principles designed to ensure environmental protection and responsible development), a program of action called Agenda 21 and treaties aimed at curbing climate change and limiting the loss of biodiversity...
...University and city government reached a landmark agreement in November 1990 to increase Harvard's voluntary contributions...