And even landmark bills that do pass are targeted in following years by opponents seeking to revise and weaken them.
Ms. Gibbs said she planned to tackle the expansion of the Hewitt School's classrooms and office space -- the 45 East 75th Street building is a combination of two small buildings in a landmark area that does not permit upward growth -- and to address matters of diversity, curriculum and technology.
Finally, there was much about this landmark study that did not surprise us.
Turnage is one of the most brilliant composers of his generation and Greek was a landmark piece that did a huge amount for his reputation when it appeared at the Munich Biennale, and then the English National Opera, in 1988 when Turnage was just 25.
"There is not a large percentage of our individual landmarks that are done for purely cultural reasons," Ms. Raab said, "but they are important".
Access was not the C.I.A.'s only obstacle; elsewhere in Afghanistan, the agency was using National Geographic maps from the nineteen-sixties, with names for landmarks and villages that didn't correspond to those used by the locals.
"I have never seen the Landmarks Commission landmark a property that didn't deserve to be a landmark," said Margarita López.
By The New Yorker May 8, 2012 The New Yorker's monthly live event, The Big Story, returned on Tuesday with a discussion of the magazine's landmark covers — and the ones that didn't make the cut.
BBC Music's Chris Roberts cited it as the group's best album and "one of those carved-in-stone landmarks that the rock canon doesn't allow you to bad-mouth".
Consequently, this method is limited by the number of landmarks that can be identified and does not attempt to align within-area topography.
It is striking how much landmark music that we don't necessarily associate with Los Angeles was recorded here, from Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna to Come" to James Brown's "Say It Loud -- I'm Black and I'm Proud".
