Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...College must also be certain that the monument does not glorify the South. The Civil War was primarily a political and economic struggle. But the Confederacy, Dixie, and the Stars and Bars have all become symbols of hate. In Alabama, the state capitol is topped by a confederate flag. It wasn't placed there during reconstruction, but during the battle over desegregation...
...flag of the confederacy--once a badge of honor--has become a badge of hate. In North Carolina, school officials are facing a new form of civil disobedience. Junior high and high school students are pinning the flag to their apparel, much to the alarm of school administrators who fear the flag will increase racial tensions. Students who refuse to remove the flag are being kicked out of Carolina classrooms...
...Chase" is a capture-the-flag tournament in which four-man teams wear "Glazers," sunglasses with ink-filled squirt guns attached to them. One team wins when it captures all three of the other team's flags or hits all of its opponents with a "Glazer...
...will soon owe Panama as a periodic payment required by the Panama Canal treaties. Delvalle has persuaded most of Panama's worldwide consulates to retain the more than $20 million in annual payments that the government reportedly receives from 11,000 merchant ships registered under the Panamanian flag. In a written response to questions from TIME last week, Delvalle declared from hiding, "All imaginable pressures, no matter how dramatic they may seem, should be taken if we want to have a democracy in Panama...
...commemorate Mexico's Flag Day, two Golden Arches outlets in Mexico City papered their trays with place mats embossed with a representation of the national emblem. Eagle-eyed government agents swooped down and confiscated the disrespectful place mats. Saul Kahan, senior partner of McDonald's in Mexico, explained, "Our intention was never to give offense. It was to help Mexicans learn about their culture." Do not expect the chain to introduce a new dish called McEaglets anytime soon...