Word: banners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chinese nationals celebrated their president'svisit by waving China's bright red flags alongsidethe Star-Spangled Banner. Chanting "One China,"supporters lined the streets around SandersTheatre and exchanged verbal volleys withanti-Jiang protesters...
...personal link to Jiang or China did not prove necessary for all who protested under the banner of Taiwanese Cultural Society (TCS) and the Students for a Free Tibet. A few Bostonians without affiliation to any identity group were present at the protests. They draped American flags over their shoulders to protest the red carpet the United States had rolled out for Jiang. And Chinese dissident Harry Wu spoke to crowds on such universal issues as the value of human rights...
...such a banner year for Harvard sports, giving out The Crimson's annual year-end awards was a fine mix of joy and pain--joy at celebrating so many amazing athletic performances and pain at slighting teams and players by assigning their peers to arbitrary categories...
From heated arguments on the Undergraduate Council e-mail list to a banner-waving, slogan-chanting demonstration on the steps of University Hall, debate concerning the difference in appearance between men's and women's diplomas at the College demonstrates that student opinion is all but clear on the issue...
...Microsoft is accused of taking against Compaq--threatening its largest PC partner with the revocation of its Windows license if Compaq chose Netscape's Web browser, Navigator, over Microsoft's competing Explorer--clear violations of the law. Gates and his supporters, by contrast, steadfastly insist (cue the Star-Spangled Banner sound track) that every deal they've ever struck is just another example of the company's ongoing effort to give the American consumer more and more "functionality" at lower and lower prices...