Word: landmarking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Shultz has long argued that the U.S. Secretary of State needs a large and secure home where he can entertain visiting dignitaries. Last week his wish came a step closer to fulfillment when it was disclosed that philanthropist Gwendolyn Cafritz posthumously donated her landmark mansion to become the Secretary's official residence. Cafritz, a Washington socialite who died Nov. 29 at age 78, set aside money from her estate to restore and maintain the $9 million mansion before turning it over to the Government...
This plan has one final advantage: it would leave the Gulf Station untouched. This is as it should be, since the Gulf Station is not only an architectual masterpiece and historical landmark, but it's still one of the few parking lots in the Square, and therefore helps keep Harvard Yard safe from Al Vellucci...
...perhaps one of the greatest misinterpretations of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, which outlawed racial segregation in public schools, Chavez declared that, "The courts have come a far cry from a decision in 1954 that allowed a young black girl to attend her neighborhood school...
...expression. It is a right exercised by 1.6 million U.S. women each year -- some rich, some poor; some barely out of childhood, some close to middle age; nearly a fifth married, the rest single. But in the eyes of many Americans, the right to abortion, established by the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, is not a right at all, but a wrong...
Virtually invisible to radar, the B- 2 is a military landmark. But what does it threaten more -- the Soviet Union or the federal budget? -- A small army of would- be wise men are proffering advice to President- elect George Bush. -- Why Secretary of State George Shultz threw himself into a one- man jihad that kept Yasser Arafat from speaking to the United Nations...