Word: landmarks
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High over the hallowed grass of Boston's most famous landmark, I began to separate my love for sports--be it as a spectator or participant--from my job as a sportswriter. I could be both the passionate fan and jovially clinical chronicler. Boom: perspective. For the first time, I began to savor the moments. This is the turning point in any sportswriter's career. One cannot survive in this business as a fan; the job simply saps the spirit...
...committee produced the landmark Proposition48, penned by Bok himself...
...landmark decision that invalidates measures in 23 states, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that states do not have the power to impose term limits on members of Congress, and neither does the Congress itself. Term limits, said the court, must be imposed by constitutional amendment. Proponents vowed to press for passage of such an amendment despite a decisive rejection by the House in March...
...Senate passed theGOP's landmark planto balance the budget by 2002 (by a vote of 57-42), after relentlessly shooting down two dozen Democratic amendments designed to protect Medicare, national parks, education and other GOP targets. "We will finally begin tounpile the deficits," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. "We will finally begin to speak for the future." The GOP package promises $958 billion in savings -- chiefly from Medicare, Medicaid and the elimination of 181 agencies and programs, from the Commerce Department to the Opera-Musical Theater Advisory Panel. Notably absent: $350 billion in tax cuts that more aggressive House...
...power, it still holds only a feeble minority of the national population and opinion. Despite the fact that approximately two-thirds of the nation supports gun control, the NRA has marshalled for a repeal of the landmark Brady Bill. With 3.5 million loyal and voting members, the NRA's voice is also heard disproportionately in elections; they compose little over one percent of the population yet five percent of regular voters...