Word: landmarked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after bailing out strike-ridden CPS nine times in 18 years, the Illinois legislature passed the SRA. It was immediately hailed as a model for other cities' reforms. The news media and education experts called it a landmark in education reform. A broad minority coalition led by the Chicago Urban League enthusiastically supported the reform...
...landmark case was brought by shipyard welder Lois Robinson, who accused her employer of ignoring the display of pornographic images and condoning the routine verbal abuse of the six females among the 846 skilled-crafts employees. Robinson and two other women testified that they endured a barrage of comments from their male peers, perhaps the mildest of which was "I'd like to get in bed with that." The offending photos, many of which came from calendars provided by tool-supply companies, included a nude woman bending over with her buttocks and genitals exposed, a nude female torso with USDA...
...incurable golfer, the club names are almost mythic: Palm Beach, La Quinta, Mission Hills. But the owner of those exotic courses, California's Landmark Land Co., has been stuck for months in that great sand trap of the American economy, the savings and loan crisis. Landmark owns the resorts through a New Orleans subsidiary, Oak Tree Savings Bank, which is under pressure from federal regulators to raise some cash and shore up its finances. As a result, Landmark agreed last week to sell nine golf clubs and resorts for an estimated $739 million to an investor group led by Tokyo...
While Japanese investment in foreign properties has slowed dramatically, the country's affinity remains high for golf courses and other resorts. "They think we're the best in the world in golf communities," says Landmark's chairman, Gerald Barton, who will run the properties...
...landmark accord with Indian leaders last year, the Smithsonian Institution agreed to sort through its collection of 18,500 remains and to return for burial all those that were clearly identifiable as belonging to a certain tribe. Stanford University then pledged to give back its entire collection of remains of the Ohlone tribe. Other museums and collectors followed suit, and in November President Bush signed a bill to protect Indian grave sites in the U.S. and to return remains to the tribes. In some instances, however, tribes have asked a museum to retain permanent control of the objects so they...