Word: landmarking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nourse said the Coalition for Choice will hold a rally in January to celebrate the 19th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion...
...deceased -- read); about a missing cat identifiable by "a rhinestone collar w/name and electronic cat door opener"; about women from Los Angeles hiring migrant workers to wait in line for them to buy watches shaped like cucumbers or bacon and eggs. On Hollywood Boulevard I saw a HISTORIC LANDMARK sign outside the site of "The First Custom T-Shirt Shop in California," flyers on the wall promoting a group called Venal Opulence and, in a store across the street, "Confucius X-Rated Mini-Condom Fortune Cookies." No wonder, I thought, that when I tell people I live in California -- worse...
...make up for the decades of neglect. The case has finally made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and arguments will be heard next week. It marks the first time the Justices will consider how the widely embraced principles of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark decision that desegregated public elementary and secondary schools, apply to colleges and universities...
...York City's own World Trade Center, 1,368 ft., soar higher than the Empire State Building's now modest 1,250 ft.), the grande dame of skyscrapers is apparently still fetching enough to win a new suitor. According to the Wall Street Journal, the landmark's current owner, Prudential Insurance Co., is selling the legendary edifice for a comparatively paltry $40 million. The reported buyer: a member of the Grace family, which founded W.R. Grace...
...councillors earn praise from many sides for reforms, including filling the long-empty post of police commissioner, negotiating a landmark in-lieu-of-taxes agreement with Harvard and forming the mayor's committee to study town-gown issues, appointing new heads of the Department of Public Works and the Water Department and passing an ordinance requiring condom vending machines in Cambridge restaurants...