Word: landmarks
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...brings good news for the Kennedy School and Harvard as a whole. Students can again look forward to Nye's illumination of international conflict; he has indicated that he may resume teaching after becoming accustomed to his new job. Perhaps after a similar period of adjustment Ellwood, who wrote landmark papers on poverty with Mary Jo Bane, will again contribute one of his charismatic guest lectures to Ec 10 or offer a course in the economics department...
...Weld undoubtedly wanted Fried in place for those landmark political decisions that inevitably move on to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fried's writings have been characterized as inimical to labor and women, with a revisionist view of Roe v. Wade and disparagement for unions...
Although plans for renovating the Coop's six stores are not final, the Harvard Square landmark will be more modern and customer-friendly, Murphy said...
...Moody. "But it's certainly the most embarrassing flop yet." Today, Mitsubishi Estate Co. announced it is surrendering its almost $2 billion stake in the12-building Rockefeller Center, and, in the process, divesting the Rockefeller family -- which owns 20 percent of the center -- of its remaining ties to the landmark. Mitsubishi will transfer title to Rockefeller Center Properties Inc., the trust that holds the $1.3 billion mortgage. The Mitsubishi decision is the latest of several ill-fated high profile real estate purchases by the Japanese, including the purchases of the Pebble Beach Golf Course in California, the MCA studios...
Korean War flyer Marlon Green took Continental Airlines all the way to the Supreme Court in 1963, prompting a landmark judgment that opened commercial airlines to black pilots. It was 10 more years before a woman got that far, though during World War II 1,104 members of the Women's Air Service Pilots covered 60 million miles ferrying every type of fighter and cargo plane, as well as testing planes and pulling targets for apprentice artillery gunners. Then, in a landmark case against United Airlines filed by the Justice Department in 1973, a federal court found entrenched discrimination...