This year, two competing international teams published the landmark drafts of the 3.3 billion base pair sequence that defines our species (ScienceNOW, 12 February).
Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., who sits on the Energy and Commerce subcommittee that helped draft landmark tobacco-safety legislation last year, got his box from one of the world's leading cigarette makers.
She agreed to this interview to discuss Labour's plans to draft landmark legislation on women's safety, but that was before the inquiry into child abuse was announced, and before deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman lobbed a bomb into the party hierarchy, insisting that the Gordon Brown era was marked by sexism and inequality.
But the landmarks commission said building owners are routinely allowed to see draft landmark-designation reports and to confer with staff members on how to submit an application that will meet the commission's restrictions.
Just months after its founding, the U.N. also formed its Human Rights Commission, chaired by former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, to draft the landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in Paris on December 10 , 1948
He became a leading opponent of the Vietnam War, and in 1986 drafted the landmark Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act, which called for sanctions against South Africa and stated preconditions for lifting them, including the release of all political prisoners.
He helped engineer the recent inclusion of Venezuela in the Mercosur trade bloc, and Mr. Chávez also put him in charge of drafting a landmark labor law signed by the president this spring.
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A late draft of the landmark report by Lord Smith of Kelvin, whose cross-party commission proposed sweeping new powers for Holyrood, included the right to vary universal credit.
After years of difficult negotiations, representatives of nearly 200 countries have concluded what they hope will be the final draft of a landmark global agreement to fight climate change, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced Saturday at a United Nations conference outside Paris.
