Word: emblemize
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...even making inroads among more mature professionals. The startling palette of reds and blues, golds and silvers, greens and purples comes from inexpensive temporary hair-coloring products that are easily applied at home and almost as easily showered away. Confrontational coloration, once a shocking British and American punk emblem, is now celebrated as the sleek plumage of the up-and-coming yuppie generation. Says Steven Docherty, art director of the Vidal Sassoon hairstyling empire: "It's color without the commitment...
...Crystal On Jan. 14, the Red Cross adopted its third emblem after years of criticism that the organization's other symbols--the cross and the crescent--were too religious...
...defense of Palestinian rights, threat to wipe Israel off the map and questioning of the Jewish Holocaust have likewise made him a hero in much of the Muslim world. Coming at a time of dwindling American influence in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, Ahmadinejad's leadership is an emblem of a resurgent Iran that is assuming a role as a major regional power. Until now, his assertiveness has enabled him to set the agenda within a political system where foreign policy had been mainly in the hands of Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and his Supreme National Security Council...
Jarmoska is not alone in her suspicion. A growing number of breast-cancer activists and organizations have become concerned that the pink ribbon-- an emblem of breast-cancer awareness since 1992--has been hijacked for marketing purposes, a phenomenon that some call pink washing. Last year the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the nation's largest private charity focusing on breast cancer, urged consumers to start asking questions like how much of the money they spend on pink purchases will actually go to charity, what kind of activities does the charity support and what has its record been...
...JUST GOING TO RENAME IT "THE ALLEN LOG" Senator George Allen continues to sink deeper into the macaca. The Sons of Confederate Veterans claim they're offended by one of his many apologies, in which he said the Confederate flag (once on display in his home) was "an emblem of hate." If you're keeping score (we are), Allen has now alienated South Asians, Jews, blacks and fans of the Confederacy. Talk about whittling away at your base...