Word: landmarks
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...soon lost, caught out of sight of any T Stop, the church or any recognizable landmark...
...impeachment process may have finally ended last Friday afternoon with the Senate voting to acquit President Clinton, but faculty and students remain divided on whether the scandal of the year will become a permanent punchline or a bona fide political landmark...
...earlier, in the week's other landmark Internet ruling, a Philadelphia court blocked enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act, Congress's latest attempt to ban cybersmut. The law was intended, its backers say, to protect children from "teaser ads"--sexually explicit free samples that many porn sites offer before making users pay by credit card. But the court agreed with critics who said the measure would curb not only teasers but a wide range of less racy Internet speech directed at adults...
...King was not invited to join President Jimmy Carter's 1978 Camp David negotiations, which produced the landmark Israeli-Egyptian peace accord. But for many years afterward, Hussein played a pivotal role, often behind the scenes, in diplomacy to achieve a comprehensive peace. Besides conducting secret negotiations with Israeli leaders for years, he became a crucial partner of the Palestinians at the 1991 Madrid talks that led to the 1993 Oslo accords. In 1994 he fulfilled a long-standing ambition by negotiating Jordan's peace treaty with Israel...
Just a few weeks after the release of "A Civil Action," the Robert Redford film based on the 1986 landmark court case Anne Anderson, et. al v. W.R. Grace, et al, the real-life cast members gathered at the Harvard Law School (HLS) last Saturday to discuss the continuing importance of their case as a teaching tool in classrooms...