Word: landmarking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the Reagan Administration's landmark report, A Nation at Risk, sounded the alarm in 1983, schools have been under constant pressure to help all students learn more, premised on the notion that whatever we asked of students in the past will not be sufficient for them or the country in the future...
...suit is being handled by attorney Jan Schlichtmann who undertook a landmark suit against two corporations for water pollution they caused in Woburn, Mass. The case was made famous by the book A Civil Action...
...team had won the Ivys the year before. I had already turned down full rides at Berkeley [California] and Illinois." Stern and other female athletes eventually filed a class action against the university to restore gymnastics and volleyball, citing Brown's failure to comply with Title IX, the landmark civil rights statute barring gender discrimination in education...
...whole millennium thing is basically a hype," says Robert Halmi, who is producing a millennial extravaganza for abc and thus knows whereof he speaks. "But," Halmi continues, "just try to make a reservation for New Year's Eve 1999 at any of the landmark restaurants around the world. It's sold out. So obviously the hype works." In that spirit, ABC asked Halmi, the chairman of Hallmark Entertainment, to come up with something about "what the year 2000 means." A tough question, so Halmi has passed the buck to 10 of America's leading playwrights--John Guare, Larry Gelbart, David...
Children who take tours of the landmark walk upon the building's original 19th-century floor planks and enjoy puppet shows with three-feet puppets portraying escaped slaves Harriet Tubman and Lewis Hayden, all recreating the Underground Railroad...