Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretty much in the cards," he said. "We are hoping we can hold the line on the next year's budget round. This is a symbol of troubling times when money is tight...
First-year medical student Marisa B. Brett says she thinks a female majority is a valuable symbol...
...Japanese government said it will spend $1 billion over the next 10 years to pay for research into its wartime activities and to fund cultural exchanges with other Asia-Pacific countries as a symbol of remorse for its wartime atrocities. But groups of women demonstrated at the Japanese embassies in Seoul and Manila, angered that the package contained no compensation for the tens of thousands of Asian women forced into sex slavery by the Japanese army...
...tigereye: kj has asked that her ashes be scattered over a field of sunflowers in the Central Valley, and has adopted sunflowers as her symbol right...
...first Woodstock became a symbol of communalism by accident. Says John Scher, an executive with Polygram Records, which invested in Woodstock '94: "There's this myth that Woodstock was a free festival. It wasn't a free concert at all, and it wasn't intended to be a free concert." On that weekend in '69, the kids broke down the fences; the promoters couldn't stop the influx, so they gave in to the inevitable and announced that the show was free. It was a huge money loser for its backers...