Word: landmarks
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...there are substantial differences. While most candidates are pitching themselves as "fighters," I have actually gone to Washington and fought to get a piece of legislation through Congress--the landmark Superfund law which paid for the clean-up of toxic waste sites all across the nation...
...course, the Federal Government that in 1967 formally made age discrimination illegal. But in a landmark 1993 decision involving a pension-vesting case, the U.S. Supreme Court made it much more difficult to prove age was the cause of a layoff. After the ruling it became easier for an employer to cut payroll by replacing higher-salaried workers with lower-paid ones--even if those let go are all much older than the employees who take their place...
...Twenty years after the moviehouse closed, Bogdanovich gave his landmark film the Evening Star treatment with the wan Texasville (1991). Pass on it. But if it's true the President is considering a sequel of his own on Monday night -- a televised primetime address to the nation -- you'll want to tune in at 9. If he's a no-show, there's always Miss Teen...
DIED. LEROY EDGAR BURNEY, 91, Surgeon General from 1956 to 1961 and the first in that office to implicate smoking as a cause of lung cancer; in Arlington Heights, Ill. Burney's pronouncements helped set the stage for the Surgeon General's landmark antismoking report...
...says A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., a retired federal judge (who is more qualified for the high court than Thomas). Thomas has voted against minority set-aside programs in federal contracting, against creating majority-black congressional districts and even questioned the logic of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark ruling that struck down segregated schools. It's the substance of those judicial opinions that offends Thomas' critics--not his complexion...