Word: bannering
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When protesters, especially Northern liberals, demand that the flag be removed, they are not conveniently forgetting the crimes against humanity committed under the still revered Star Spangled Banner; they are acting against an object that actively stands for the oppression and hatred of black Americans. This is an issue that should not be compromised. The only way to send a clear statement that South Carolina has rejected institutionalized racial bigotry is to remove the flag from the state house grounds completely...
...militiamen and hustled into an apartment block with mirrored windows. Wallets, key chains, and even belts are removed from you and taken away for inspection. Finally you are seated in a room dominated by an acrylic painting of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. At the far end is Hizballah's yellow banner, the words "Islamic Revolution of Lebanon" written in Arabic beneath the silhouette of a holy warrior's rifle...
...larger red Radcliffe banner hung above the speaking podium at yesterday's event, and the Agassiz stage was flanked with urns of flowers--pink hydrangeas, fuchsia azaleas and branches of pussy willow...
Finally, in 1984, Putin was sent to the KGB Red Banner Academy and Foreign Intelligence School 101 to prepare for service abroad, then posted to East Germany. Few concrete facts have emerged about his career there, and observers disagree about the quality of his service, from brilliant James Bond to third-rate flop. The known outlines--and the way his career ended--suggest something unremarkable. "He was no superspy," admits one of his young Kremlin aides. "His line was political intelligence" aimed at recruiting Western agents. Putin says his work involved ferreting out information on the U.S.S.R.'s political enemies...
...Perot ran under the banner of the Reform Party against President Clinton and Republican challenger Bob Dole, drawing less than nine percent of the vote. But the showing was good enough to secure federal matching funds for the Reform Party candidate in the 2000 election...