Word: landmarks
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Like the genes in a living cell, the microcodes on a computer chip carry the instructions that control the chip's functions. Manufacturers safeguard the valuable microcodes with copyrights, but their legality has been a vexing question. No longer. In a landmark ruling last week in San Jose, Federal Judge William Gray upheld a microcode copyright used by Intel Corp., the world's largest producer of microprocessors. The decision came in a dispute that began in 1984 when Japan's NEC challenged the copyright. Intel responded that NEC had illegally used the code in its own products. But while Gray...
...January the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case which the White House hopes will overturn the Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion 15 years...
...have surprised anyone--the University announced last spring that it intended to demolish the building and replace it with a five-story hotel. What was disturbing was the timing of the move and the University's straightforward admission that it destroyed the building before it was eligible to attain landmark status...
While man was gaining on the angels, woman was still marking time. Late in the year at a conference on women's liberation, Kate Millett gave a landmark speech on "Sexual Politics" that was the germ of her seminal 1970 book. However, exponents of such views were widely derided as "bra burners." Even in the antiwar and civil rights movements, women were relegated to subordinate roles. Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael went as far as to say that "the only position for women in the Movement is prone." Some things refused to change...
Having been used only twice, within a four-day period nearly 44 years ago at the end of World War II, the Bomb is prone to mind-numbing abstraction. The TV series uses grainy, black-and-white newsreels to make landmark events feel as though they happened in the real world and epigrammatic statements sound as though they were said by real people. One of many moments that make War and Peace television at its best: a 1946 United Nations disarmament conference is seen considering a U.S. plan for international controls that would prevent the Soviet Union from developing...