The Tarrant and Uris book, along with Daniel Levinson's Seasons of a Man's Life and Gail Sheehy's landmark Passages, taught me that there are categories of crises that we will all see in our lifetime.
She broke ground reporting on maternity clinics, prostitution and feminism and helped millions navigate life's seasons with her landmark work, Passages.
But it was not so different from places I had lived before, so landmarks and passages soon felt familiar.
Mr. Miller said that Mr. Taylor helped lead the Council through a fiscal crisis and oversaw the passage of landmark legislation.
Against the odds, let us hope that the Senate's recent passage of landmark health care legislation can have the same effect.
Just last week, President Barack Obama moved to raise fuel efficiency standards, and a landmark climate bill won passage through a key committee in the House of Representatives.
When I started in the industry in the 1970s, it was shortly after the passage of landmark legislation known as the Truth in Lending Act.
WASHINGTON — Buoyed by passage of landmark health care legislation, the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress said Wednesday that an overhaul of financial regulations was the next legislative priority.
With the passage of landmark tobacco legislation last year, he added, the Food and Drug Administration's new tobacco division will be able to regulate the contents and marketing claims of e-cigarettes in the same way it is about to begin regulating traditional tobacco products.
Re "An End to Secret Campaign Funds" (editorial, June 29): You may have left a misimpression about the contribution of Representative Lloyd Doggett, Democrat of Texas, to the passage of landmark legislation to stop abuse by political groups created under Section 527 of the tax code.
