Word: landmarking
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Panelist Nancy Ezold, an attorney who brought a landmark sex discrimination case to the Supreme Court when she was denied partnership in a law firm, said the "glass ceiling," or differential treatment, hurt her chances for advancement...
When it finally happened -- after years of ethical hand wringing and science- fiction fantasy -- it was done in such a low-key way by researchers so quiet and self-effacing that the world nearly missed it. The landmark experiment was reported by Jerry Hall at a meeting of the American Fertility Society in Montreal three weeks ago. Afterward, colleagues came up to congratulate him and say "Nice job." Others voted to give his paper, written with his supervisor, Dr. Robert Stillman, the conference's first prize. But nobody seemed to want to pursue the one fact that made his little...
...well as thematically. As Garcia Marquez narrates in his preface, these stories had a gestation of almost twenty years. This long travail might have made his ideas stale, but instead they seem surprisingly fresh and unaffected. Garcia Marquez's touch is lighter and more collected than in his landmark novels, his style more restrained and assured. Gone is some of his characteristic flamboyance. He almost appears to liberate himself from the magical realism which he left as legacy and burden to the writers of Latin America. He veers towards surrealism at times, and the influence of Kafka is quite noticeable...
After about ten minutes of walking up Commonwealth Ave., we hit the Public Garden, a major landmark on the Canoli Pilgrimage and, incidentally, a nice park. We cruised past the statue of Mrs. Mallard, Mack, Quack, Lack and the rest of the ducklings. We then headed up Beacon, passing the Common, where a really bad band was giving a free concert...
...event, sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department and the Du Bois Institute, marked the 125th anniversary of Du Bois' birth and the 90th anniversary of the publication of his landmark collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk...