Word: flag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like a software start-up--new image, new logo, fast growth. After she came to H.R.C. in 1995, she quickly changed its symbol to a yellow equal sign on a blue background. Cool as a computer-keyboard button, it has no visible connection to the pink triangle or rainbow flag, two more freighted symbols of the ragged glories of gay history...
...negative ads and the campaign-finance system that supports them. Neumann, elected to Congress in 1994 as a number-crunching budget cutter, has aimed his recent TV spots at Feingold's vote against a ban on partial-birth abortions and at his opposition to a constitutional amendment outlawing flag burning. The idea is to whip social conservatives into a holy frenzy and get them to the polls, with the expectation that Monica-weary Democrats will stay home. "It's going to be won or lost on turnout," Neumann says. "And I've got to believe we're in pretty good...
Still, I'm told there was a time when academia stood apart from popular currents and evaluated them from a critical perspective. It is a great loss to today's undergraduates that our teachers are no longer critics but, instead, are the most zealous flag-bearers of prevailing social trends...
Among the crowds of veteran groups massing into formation and children with face paint, a small brownstone house stood out on Bennington Street with its colorful banners and masses of people wearing Italian flag buttons. Joe Cinserali, a six-month volunteer for the Cellucci campaign, had converted the home into the Cellucci parade headquarters...
...roster of celebrated bank holidays, Columbus Day may rank way down the list, tied with obscure federal celebrations like Flag...