Word: landmarking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impassioned marginalia, Morgan's long-ago reader sided with Dudley. "As I sit here, looking into the Governor Thomas Dudley Memorial Garden. I feel that history has vindicated Dudley," his faded block capitals read. "After all, the only Harvard landmark named after Winthrop is a JOCK HOUSE...
Soon after the ozone hole over Antarctica was confirmed in 1985, many of the world's governments reached an unusually rapid consensus that action had to be taken. In 1987 they crafted the landmark Montreal Protocol, which called for a 50% reduction in CFC production by 1999. Three years later, as signs of ozone loss mounted, international delegates met again in London and agreed to a total phaseout of CFCs by the year 2000. That much time was considered necessary to give CFC manufacturers a chance to develop substitute chemicals that do not wipe out ozone...
...sexual encounter in Vox is the very opposite of another contemporary landmark of literary eroticism, the zipless sex of the '70s. Erica Jong's cheesy fiction offered a New Age pardon for the grunting libido of genital-to- genital sex. Zipless meant voiceless. Vox, by contrast, is the ultimate in '90s safe sex: voices, not hands, caress each other as Baker teases out a rambling romp of a conversation followed by simultaneous masturbatory climaxes between partners thousands of miles away...
...would come to a boil again just before the Republican Convention gets under way in Houston in August. The day after the court took the case, the streets of Washington offered a symbolic preview of the fight to come. To mark the 19th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that made abortion a federally protected right, pro-choice and pro-life demonstrators squared off in photo-op warfare...
This antigreen brigade advocates economic development in wilderness areas, arguing that land can be used wisely for human benefit without destroying Mother Nature. The timing of the campaign is excellent, since two landmark pieces of environmental legislation are up for renewal in Congress this year: the Endangered Species Act, which prohibits development that drives a species to extinction; and the Clean Water Act, which contains a provision protecting wetlands from uncontrolled exploitation. The wise-users are pressuring Congress to weaken those laws as a way to spur economic growth. Another goal is to block proposed reforms of the federal mining...