In his signature accomplishment, Cisneros convinced the city's residents to vote for the city-financed construction of the Alamodome.

Underlying the Democratic approach is the assertion that President Bush's signature legislative accomplishment, the $1.35 trillion tax cut, when combined with a softening economy, has sharply reduced the size of the surplus.

Such sentiments are hardly unfamiliar for a senator known more on Capitol Hill for his passionate embrace of lost causes than for signature accomplishments.

Unfettered travel across Europe, not including Britain or Ireland, was established by the Schengen agreement and has been a signature accomplishment of the EU for 16 years.

That is being remembered as one of his signature accomplishments.

Improving Virginia's transportation infrastructure and increasing its revenues was one of his signature accomplishments.

The ANC role in the peaceful transition to majority black rule that came with Nelson Mandela's ascent to power in 1994 remains its signature accomplishment.

But the most painful part might well have been the evaporation of one of their signature accomplishments: the closing of the racial achievement gap.

As governor, Blackburn won passage of several reforms in the areas of state finance and internal improvements, but his signature accomplishments were in the area of penal reform.

The Louisville Extreme Park was one of his signature accomplishments as Mayor.