Word: flags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stump: parents constantly push squirming children into her arms and whip out Instamatics to record the moment for posterity. But despite it all, Whitman's bid for re-election is fast shaping up as the cakewalk that wasn't. Her favorable ratings have dipped below 50%, a traditional red flag for an incumbent, and recent polls are declaring the race too close to call...
...large TV-screen, pendant above the court, images of the Dins were superimposed on images of the American flag, Boston's skyline and colorful fireworks...
...Flag-burning, school uniforms and V-chips seemed trivial to New Yorkers in the face of the big beefy issues of municipal bankruptcy, urban decay, and criminal danger lurking around every corner. Where campaigns beyond the Hudson strive for a vanilla homogeneity that does not offend or alienate any potential voters, New York politicos have never been afraid to muddy themselves in the racial, ethnic, and social divides within the electorate...
DIED. YEVGENI KHALDEI, 80, World War II photographer who pointedly snapped Russia's famous answer to America's iconic image of the flag raising on Iwo Jima: a lone soldier waving the Soviet standard over a devastated Berlin; in Moscow...
Contrary to cult thinking, outsize returns year in and year out are not a birthright wholly detached from the possibility of getting wiped out. Only curmudgeons like Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who last week sent up his third warning flag in 12 months, and gray-haired money managers who lived through the tough '70s markets speak of such things. Everyone else goes on merrily leveraging his or her financial future to an institution that has demonstrated through history a penchant for stomping on anyone who dares to take it for granted...