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...sooner had the Supreme Court announced that it was narrowly upholding Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that found a constitutional right to abortion, than both pro-choice and pro-life forces were bitterly denouncing it. The decision hewed carefully to the middle ground between the two groups. Yet, coming from a court dominated by conservatives, it was actually a remarkable declaration of judicial independence...
Through Meyer would not name the 21 venture capital positions that were sold to Landmark Ventures, a venture capital investment company in Hartford, he said that the positions were "not a significant part of the [October] writedown...
Attorney General William Barr called the landmark decision "an important victory . . . against terrorists and narcotraffickers." But Justice John Paul Stevens, who was joined in his dissent by Harry Blackmun and Sandra Day O'Connor, warned that "most courts throughout the civilized world will be deeply disturbed by the 'monstrous' decision the court announces today...
EARTH SUMMIT: Fiasco or Landmark...
...answer, which provoked an instant volley of slings and arrows from the nation's outraged Community partners, was an astounding no. By a 50.7% majority, meaning roughly 48,000 votes out of nearly 4 million cast, Danes voted in a referendum not to ratify the treaty of Maastricht, a landmark agreement that pledges the Community to monetary as well as political union by the end of the century. Coming amid a Continent-wide recession and with a bloody conflict still raging in Yugoslavia, the stunning no vote also undercut the unity that could allow the Eurocrats in Brussels to play...