Word: landmarks
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...just another tycoon, he is also an inspirational symbol -- the first black businessmen to gain full access to the giant pools of capital on Wall Street. Says Earl Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise: "The Reg Lewis deal will be recorded in the pages of black business history as a landmark, a sign of change...
Robert Bork is a right-wing ideologue. As a Supreme Court Justice, he would show little respect for the past 30 years of judicial precedent. Acting on dogmatic, narrow-minded views, he might vote to overrule landmark decisions on abortion, civil rights and church-state separation...
Hirsch's villain is Educational Philosopher John Dewey, who, in his landmark 1915 treatise Schools of Tomorrow, espoused the learning of skills rather than information. The long-range result, says Hirsch, is that children can now decode words but lack the understanding to put what they read into broad, insightful context. The Hirsch antidote: heavy doses of Western cultural lore, as represented by a list of nearly 5,000 entries in an appendix labeled "What Literate Americans Know," ranging from A ("act of God") to Z ("Zeitgeist"), and including "1066" and "White Christmas (song)." Knowing at least a commercial idea...
...67th anniversary of Roseland Dance City, the landmark ballroom on West 52nd Street in New York City, and you . . . are . . . there...
ROCHESTER, Minn.--Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmum '29 best known for the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion, is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer at the Mayo Clinic a clinic spokesman said yesterday...