Word: landmarking
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...uniform argue that homosexuality is voluntary behavior, legitimately subject to regulation. Gays counter that they are acting as God or nature -- in other words, their genes -- intended. Says spokesman Gregory J. King of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, one of the largest gay-rights lobbying groups: "This is a landmark study that can be very helpful in increasing public support for civil rights for lesbian and gay Americans." Some legal scholars think that if gays can establish a genetic basis for sexual preference, like skin color or gender, they may persuade judges that discrimination is unconstitutional...
Ginsburg became a judge back in 1980, appointed by President Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals, after she gained national acclaim as counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union. She had won five landmark cases before the Supreme Court and had taken a novel approach to expanding the scope of the equal-protection clause by suing on behalf of men in some cases. She argued, for instance, that widowers as well as widows were entitled to Social Security survivor payments and challenged an Oklahoma law that allowed women, but not men, to buy alcoholic beverages at 18. She also...
...This decision to have an election by April 27 introduces an element of irreversibility. It is a landmark...
...landmark 1963 work, The Political System of Empires, is an exploration of the progress and decline of 27 different empires. He has written numerous other books and essays including some in Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish...
...diehard right is alarmed at the very real prospect that in the coming month the government and the A.N.C. will reach a landmark accord. This week negotiators from 26 parties are expected to set the long-awaited date for South Africa's first free nonracial elections. That poll, expected to take place by next April, could elect Mandela President in a government of national unity. The Transitional Executive Council, the first stage of nonracial interim government, could be in place within the next few months...