Word: iconization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Double-clicking the "Microsoft Word" icon in Window's Program Manager brings up the WFW window, which looks almost identical to version 2, save for the time-of-day display at the bottom and the document ruler. The menu looks the same, as do the toolbar and the document workspace...
...Halperin manage to get himself caught between the cross hairs of a confirmation hearing so savage it resembled a drive-by shooting? True, Halperin is a liberal icon whose career stretches from the Nixon Administration -- he resigned in 1970 over the White House's policy on Cambodia -- to Washington director of the American Civil Liberties Union. But it is his nomination to the Pentagon's newly created position in charge of peacekeeping operations abroad that has turned him into an object lesson in the way a band of conservative Congressmen, bureaucrats and ideological crusaders are using the Senate's confirmation...
...America's pastor." Harry Truman called him a "counterfeit" and publicity seeker. Pat Boone considers him "the greatest person since Jesus." Fundamentalist leader Bob Jones III says Graham "has done more harm to the cause of Christ than any other living man." Biographer William Martin calls him "an icon not just of American Christianity but of America itself...
Mayor Teddy Kollek, Jerusalem's legendary political icon and the city's reasonable face to the world for 28 years, was defeated for re-election by Ehud Olmert, a hard-line opponent of Israel's latest peace initiatives...
...sneakers, cars, cola, cereal, hamburgers and underwear. In the past few years he was not a basketball star who played at business but a businessman who played basketball. His leaping, legs-splayed silhouette became as famous around the world as the large-eared shadow of another corporate and entertainment icon, Mickey Mouse. Until Jordan came along, FORTUNE 500 companies rarely used a black face to push their products...