Word: monumentalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...long ago, 500 Belgraders turned out on a midwinter morning to honor the memory of Zeljko (Arkan) Raznjatovic, the notorious paramilitary gangster who was gunned down in a hotel lobby a year ago. Dressed in rich furs and long black overcoats, the mourners snaked past Raznjatovic's gaudy monument, kissing the cold marble and sharing plastic cups of soda. Serbia's neighbors view such demonstrations of misplaced loyalty with disgust...
...maybe not. The city government has served the Peis two letters. One, dated last spring, promised the house will not be destroyed, because it was designated a historic monument in 1999. The other, which arrived in late January, gave the family one month to find a new home. "I don't know which document to believe," said Bei, as the Feb. 21 deadline to move out passed without a peep from city officials. "So we didn't do anything. Now we're just waiting for the government to tell us what it's going...
...last trip of his presidency, to Little Rock, Ark., Clinton banters with reporters. "You got anybody you want to pardon?" he asks. "Everybody in America either wants somebody pardoned or a national monument...
...labeled Clinton's last-minute pile of new rules, orders and treaties the work of a "busy beaver." The former President's aides had mischief in mind when they conjured up some of these actions, especially the designation of more than 5.6 million acres of federal land as national monuments. If Bush wants to reverse those orders, he will face howls of protests from environmental groups. "We laid a few traps," chirps a happy Clinton aide. In the 95 years since the practice was established under Teddy Roosevelt, no President's designation of a national monument has ever been reversed...
...serious problems--possibly leaving them in the hands of a Bush presidency. "There is a tremendous amount of environmental damage the next Administration could do," says Jim Angell, staff attorney for Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, who is fighting a challenge in federal court to the designation of five national-monument sites in the West...