Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty years after the landmark University of California v. Bakke decision sanctioned race as a factor in college admissions, the Boston School Committee is bringing a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that could be to public schools what the Bakke decision was to higher education...
Dorman said naming a landmark for Sorrento wasappropriate because he looms large in the minds ofmany former editors...
...undulating rhythm of this unmistakable Boston landmark is nothing short of hypnotic. Something of an Eiffel Tower of the Northeast--and of course a beacon for drunken B.U. students after a night of clubbing--this Bostonian piece of Americana pie is served up nightly, proudly flashing its red, white and blue patterns over a city obsessed with historic references...
...petition was put forward to make the sign into a Boston Landmark and destruction was halted while the legal outcome was pending. Although Citgo-lovers were not able to persuade the powers that be to classify the sign as the newest historical hot spot on the Boston map of stars, the Citgo Corporation decided that it was in fact in their best interest to fund the renovation--totaling $450,000--and upkeep of the sign for the next three years...
...common practice with such landmark discoveries, other researchers have begun their own experiments to corroborate Folkman's data and refine the technique. So far, however, his resultshave not been duplicated in full...