Word: iconic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour, according to California transit officials, the 725 miles of freeways serving Los Angeles are used at 100% capacity. Ninety-seven percent of the area's daily trips are taken in private automobiles. If McGaffey were around today, he could say that if this culture ever adopts an icon for all, the logical choice should be the orange rubber cone signifying that a lane is closed for repairs...
Beale says that he considers the Harvard statue a "National icon...
...many of the students around Garwolin would agree. At week's end a few hundred of them made a 130-mile pilgrimage to Czestochowa, home of the revered Black Madonna icon. Before the pilgrims left Garwolin, the Rev. Stanislaw Binko of the Church of the Transfiguration told them, "That which is happening before our eyes speaks to the whole world. Be brave...
...Read "A Pop Icon's Death: The Talent and the Tragedy...
...figured that even though Harvard did not have a particularly strong Computer Science department when I considered applying--in fact is didn't even exist--a school with its academic reputation would have to fix that icon," he explains...