Word: landmarks
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...last December of the Georgian-style Gulf station which used to grace a Mass Ave. lot across the street from the Harvard Union. "In order to clear the way for a posh new hotel, Harvard razed a building it owned just days before it could be declared a historic landmark," write authors Zachary Robinson and Oscar Hernandez. Just about 500 days. The Gulf station would have turned 50 in June of this year--at which point Harvard still could have destroyed it with permission from the city Historical Commission. It's a minor point, but it makes me wonder...
Bush's abortion record is hardly a model of consistency. When he ran for the 1980 G.O.P. presidential nomination, Bush supported the Supreme Court's landmark abortion-rights ruling, Roe v. Wade. A few months later, as Ronald Reagan's No. 2, he adopted his boss's anti-Roe stance. On his own now for a year, Bush has led the charge against Roe by vetoing four abortion-funding bills -- heavy lifting to qualify for the Right-to-Life Hall of Fame...
...world's largest version of the landmark American fast-food chain rang up 30,000 meals on 27 cash registers, breaking the opening-day record for McDonald's worldwide, officials said...
...first time that a cigarette manufacturer could be held liable for the death of a smoker. The court awarded $400,000 to the widowed husband of Rose Cipollone, who died of cancer in 1984 at 58. But last week a federal appeals court in Philadelphia threw out the landmark verdict, ruling that the lower court erred by excluding certain lines of questioning that might have favored the tobacco company...
...Middlesex Superior Court judge ruled this week that President Derek C. Bok does not have to testify in a landmark lawsuit against the Law School until it is determined whether or not the case will be dismissed...