Word: landmarking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Studios and electrical engineer, wrote an explanatory letter to his students: "I've known the place was unsafe for 11 years...I talked to people, they agreed it was unsafe, but after all, if the building met code when it was built, and it's now a registered national landmark, doing anything would despoil the work of the Master. Not to mention cost a lot of money...
...lose sight of in a year when so much happened that was treated like it meant so little. But for one brief period, people cared and cut through the minutiae--a Supreme Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights doctrine...
...NLRB was established in 1935--an era of landmark labor legislation--to act as the national mediator in worker disputes. The board is intended to act as a non-partisan lawyer, judge and arbiter in any legal dispute between labor and management, although the current board is recognized by labor experts as a politically conservative body...
...Landmark appointments have been slow to arrive. Graham came to Harvard 14 years ago and later became the University's first female dean when she assumed the helm of the Ed School. Last fall, Sally H. Zeckhauser became the University's first woman vice president. Still, only a handful of Harvard's top posts are held by women...
...first time, this year's reunion classes have merged in both volume and spirit. The landmark Radcliffe class of 1963 was the first to receive diplomas issued by Harvard. And now these grads are the first to join with their male counterparts for Harvard's traditionally more elaborate reunion festivities...