Word: landmarking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this landmark vote entail such a perverse set of requirements for passage? Why did advocates of the constitution help count the votes? Why did some voting tables go unattended? Despite the obvious improprieties, no apologies have been forthcoming from the "yes" advocates except to justify a tainted victory. Logic would suggest that the real apologia, is owed to the majority of undergraduates and that another election be held...
...landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that permitted Allan Bakke, 41, a white engineer, to be admitted to medical school at the University of California at Davis. Bakke, who claimed he was a victim of "reverse discrimination," had sued the university on the ground that he had been passed over in favor of less qualified minority applicants. The decision, issued in 1978, approved affirmative action but rejected rigid quotas based solely on race. This June, Bakke will graduate from Davis and move on to a residency in anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Bakke did not discuss...
Future Justice or no, Ely probably need not worry about posterity. As a Yale law student, he helped future Court Justice Abe Fortas win the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright case, in which the Court declared that indigents have the constitutional rights to counsel at trials. He did a stint on the staff of the Warren Commission investigating the death of President John F. Kennedy '40, clerked for Justice Warren the next year, and worked as a public defender in San Diego...
...City Council passed a landmark ordinance to insure 1 percent of each year's municipal budget for funding for public art. Cambridge is one of only a handful of American cities to have approved such a law, and it is the first in Massachusetts...
...cereal case was also a landmark setback for the Government's novel antitrust theory that a group of companies can "share" a monopoly. The FTC's staff had charged that the three firms had a "tacit understanding" that kept cereal prices high and stopped competitors from entering the business. If the cereal makers had lost their case, the shared monopoly doctrine might have been used against autos, aluminum and other industries dominated by a few firms...