Word: landmarking
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President Neil L. Rudenstine announced last week a landmark University-city joint effort to strengthen Cambridge's high school biology program...
Perhaps in reaction, a new sense of realism has become the vogue in Africa, and the slogan for the continent's chastened '90s might be "Learn to Walk Before You Try to Run." In 1989 the World Bank issued a landmark report titled Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth. It warned that if Africa's slide into underdevelopment continued, some countries would soon find themselves in worse poverty than the most stricken Asian lands...
...sooner had the Supreme Court announced that it was narrowly upholding Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that found a constitutional right to abortion, than both pro-choice and pro-life forces were bitterly denouncing it. The decision hewed carefully to the middle ground between the two groups. Yet, coming from a court dominated by conservatives, it was actually a remarkable declaration of judicial independence...
...meantime, creative black entrepreneurs like John Bryant are filling the gap. Just days after the riots, Bryant formed Operation Hope, a nonprofit community-development organization. The next day he secured the $370,000 needed to rebuild a South Central landmark, a pharmacy owned by Gilbert Mathieu, destroyed in the riots. Bryant's goal for the next year is to finance similar deals for 100 businesses with average loans of $200,000. "If we don't create other Gil Mathieus, then we shouldn't be around," he says. Jenkins, for one, is confident they will. "In the '60s," he says...
Through Meyer would not name the 21 venture capital positions that were sold to Landmark Ventures, a venture capital investment company in Hartford, he said that the positions were "not a significant part of the [October] writedown...