Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...measures announced by Kessler are of landmark importance not only to the biotechnology companies in Cambridge, but also to those of the entire nation, firm representatives said...
...alarming though sometimes selective use of statistics bound together with ideological glue, designed to explain why many women turned against feminism in the 1980s. Not only has her book become an unexpected best seller; it has also become a staple topic on the op-ed pages, one of those landmark books that shape the opinions of America's opinion shapers...
Mcerwa's hero is Steve Biko, the black nationalist leader whose 1977 death in police custody turned him into the country's most celebrated black martyr. At 12 Mcerwa joined the 1976 Soweto uprising, the landmark outbreak of racial violence in which more than 100 blacks were killed. As he ran home after being teargassed, an older student who had been his political mentor was gunned down by the police...
...Wade is the 1973 landmark case which ruled state bans on abortion unconstitutional. In 1989, in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, the high court placed its first limitations...
...designation as an historic landmark protects sites from federally or state funded actions but private owners are free to alter the building, she said...