Word: landmarking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Taking the landmark condo could bring the financially humbled developer $750 million, nearly twice what he paid for it three years ago. Trump is characteristically confident about the audacious plan, which he has not yet submitted to the attorney general's office for approval. "I've already been called by so many people looking to buy in," he bragged. "It's going to become a great success." Ex-wife Ivana may feel considerably less bubbly about the proposed conversion. She could lose her job as the hotel's president...
...accidents, for example, have revealed fatty fibrous ) plaques clogging the coronary arteries of 15-year-olds and fatty deposits along the aortic walls of children as young as two or three. "We see a strong correlation between cholesterol and these lesions," says Dr. Gerald Berenson, director of the landmark Bogalusa Heart Study that monitored 12,000 children for 18 years. Moreover, youngsters in the U.S. have much higher cholesterol levels than do children in countries like Japan and China, where the diet stresses vegetables over meats and dairy products. In those nations heart disease is less common...
Occasionally, however, one comes along that recalls the heroic scope and seriousness, if not the air time, of a vanishing breed. Separate but Equal, a two-part ABC movie, portrays the events leading up to the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision outlawing segregation in public schools. Sidney Poitier, in his first TV appearance since 1955, stars as future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who headed the N.A.A.C.P.'s legal effort. Burt Lancaster, another rare bird in television land, plays Marshall's courtroom adversary, John W. Davis. George Stevens Jr., whose father created some of Hollywood's great epics...
When Congress passed its landmark amnesty bill in 1986, it was considered a triumph for illegal aliens seeking to normalize their status. But the act contained limited provisions for individuals to appeal the handling of their cases by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Last week, by a 7-to-2 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the law did not bar broader legal challenges to INS policies and practices that are deemed unfair and illegal...
...Iraqi troop movements. Fires are outlawed for heating or cooking; hot coffee comes from tiny butane heaters hidden in cardboard boxes. Nights are so quiet that a cough can be heard from 400 yds., and the land is so barren that a single twisted piece of brush becomes a landmark known as the Tree. "It's easy to get lost out here. There are no terrain features," says Captain Scott Barrington, 29, of Chester, Va. "It's like the K mart parking...