Word: landmark
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...bill can be reworked to gain his support on the Senate floor. That would give Dodd the political cover he needs for his 2010 re-election campaign, but would also give the Administration the Republican support they need for a solid legislative win. And it would give Shelby his landmark piece of legislation...
...second-to-last row of Roxboro Baptist, the Whitfields try to listen to the sermon, but Brian's mind wanders. Last autumn, Debbie warned Brian that the ax might fall. She grew up in Flint, Mich., the granddaughter of a man who participated in the landmark 1936-37 sit-down strike at GM's Fisher body plant that established industrial-labor-organizing rights in America. But she saw her father and uncle go down with the automakers. "When they shut down the Fisher plant [in 1987], everything within a two-to-three-block radius closed down: bars, restaurants, gas stations...
...Third Reich. Six million Jews were killed—more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, it is ignorant, and it is hateful.” These powerful and courageous words were spoken by President Barack Obama on June 4th, in his landmark address to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt. Yesterday, here in Cambridge, the Harvard Crimson chose to grant a platform to those “hateful” voices so strongly condemned by our President...
...points to an array of authentic Indian dishes under the restaurant's glass counter - curried chicken, goat's intestine in chili paste, fish head in hot spicy curry, and mee goring, a fried noodle dish beloved by locals. Just hours earlier on Sept. 8, 2009, she had won a landmark court case against American fast-food giant McDonald's, earning the right to keep the Mc prefix in her restaurant's name...
...certainly questionable conduct for Nuñez or any judge to be discussing the landmark case with Hansen and the Ecuadorian, Diego Borja, in such cavalier fashion. In a newspaper interview, Nuñez denied that he told Hansen a predetermined verdict; his supporters say it's unclear in the videos, especially given Hansen's tortured Spanish, what exactly Nuñez is responding to. "This is a total trap on the part of Chevron," Nuñez said in an interview with Ecuadorian network Teleamazonas on Sept. 1. He acknowledged the meetings but said the secret videotaping...