Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YEARS OF AGE, THE WHITE HOUSE HAS NEVER been more polished, efficient, renowned as a symbol of liberty -- or more coveted as a residence...
...should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there," said the inventor Charles Kettering. In our time, no symbol of the future has sparked more anticipation and mystery than the year 2000. And now the epic moment is close at hand. Lucky us: few people who ever walk the earth have had the opportunity to ring in, all at once, a new year, a new decade, a new century and a new millennium. The imminence of this extraordinary occasion inspired us to devote an entire special issue to the tantalizing...
...business after watching what clear-cuts have done to the Oregon landscape. "Either my eyes were lying, or I was kidding myself about logging being sustainable," he says. From the air, Oregon's national forests look far worse than the rain forests of Rondonia, Brazil, which has become a symbol of the wanton destruction of the Amazon. Atiyeh argues that automation and exports have cost far more jobs than the protection of endangered species has. Between 1980 and '88 the amount of timber cut in western Oregon increased 19% while timber employment fell 14%. The Administration's hard line...
...also highlights the difficulties caused by intimacy between a Black and white. This chapter does not forget the Black woman's position either, and creates an interesting dialogue between a Black and white woman that hints at the concern in the Black community that white women are a status symbol for Black...
...growing number of Americans, the explorer is instead a symbol of genocide and slavery. And the holiday that once seemed a benign celebration of national pride has increasingly been labelled a day of shame...