Word: landmarks
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...likely. Whatever his faults, Hosokawa, not a particularly corrupt figure in Japanese public life, was responsible for passage of a landmark political- reform bill. Most of the senior politicians now jockeying for his job came of age in the same money-swamped system, and the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for 37 years until displaced by Hosokawa's government, lost two of its last 10 Prime Ministers to scandal. In fact, some analysts think Hosokawa, because of his popularity, could have beaten back the attempts to unseat him. But this supremely independent descendant of feudal lords does...
...Surgeon General Luther Terry in 1964 issued his landmark report linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer, and a stream of reforms soon followed. In 1966 cigarette makers were forced to put labels on their packages warning consumers about the health risks of smoking. In 1971 cigarette ads were barred from TV and radio. The medical evidence against smoking, meanwhile, continued to mount; cigarettes were linked to heart disease, emphysema and low-birth- weight babies. In 1986, when Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released one of the first widely publicized reports on the detrimental effects of passive smoke, the issue shifted...
Triantafillou recently won a landmark court case where the adoptive gay parents she represented were granted many of the rights afforded heterosexual parents...
...especially in Massachusetts, it's just not that simple. In a landmark 1986 case, Abramowitz v. Boston University, a Superior Court judge ruled that the state's broad civil rights law forces private universities to respect students' First Amendment rights. While no appellate court has ruled on this particular question, judges have applied the law to other private entities...
...everything there is a season. And on Capitol Hill, where legislators are eager to reap the rewards of passing landmark health-care legislation, this is the season to sow -- discord, that is. Currently, five Senate and House committees, each with jurisdiction over health-care legislation, are jostling over the details of "purchasing alliances," "payroll taxes" and "employer mandates," all in an effort to invent the plan that will eventually supplant the Clintons' hopelessly complicated 1,342-page proposal. The lawmakers all know the President is intractable on only one point: universal coverage. Each senses that the American public will balk...