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The FT said Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling might "mark a watershed in the company's history--the point at which Microsoft's effective monopoly of personal computer operating systems moves firmly into the ambit of the law."
The Los Angeles Times and NYT expand on the same theme, with the latter saying that virtually every labor leader in the country hailed the settlement as a "watershed."
If we can sort out all the details here—no mean task—it emerges that W9 's vocabulary entries include both what I earlier called main entries (like watershed ) and what I called subentries (like waterless in CED ). But it appears that Longman's headwords are only those that are, or introduce, main entries.
Watershed damages (water filtration, flood control)
This week several critics dub it the Great American Musical, including The New Yorker 's John Lahr, who pronounces it "a theatrical watershed: an awesome pyrotechnical display of theatrical craft and showmanship."