Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...animal is more prized than China's giant panda, a national symbol. Only about 1,000 remain in the wild, largely because of the disappearance of their bamboo grazing grounds and their limited ability to adapt to change. But natural dangers have been surpassed by human ones. Lured by the huge prices that pandas bring -- from $5,000 to $112,000 in a country where the average monthly wage is $29 -- poachers are closing in on this rare animal, tracking it down even in China's nature preserves. During the course of her travels, the WWF investigator saw two panda...
...said it was more important these days to spend time with their families, and 56% felt strongly about finding time for personal interests and hobbies. But only 13% saw importance in keeping up with fashions and trends, and just 7% thought it was worth bothering to shop for status-symbol products...
...first black women to enter St. Paul's after the school adopted coeducation in 1970, Cary adapted the traditional school symbol for her own purposes. As she says in her autobiography of the same name, the phenomenon of black ice came to represent for her the infrequent but enduring promise of a harmonious world...
...report continued, "precisely because the policeman in the ghetto is a symbol, it is of critical importance that the police take every possible step to allay grievances that flow from a sense of injustice and increased tension and turmoil...
...story did not end there. Seized on by some tenacious watchdogs at the National Institutes of Health, the case became a symbol of the fallibility and arrogance of modern science -- and of government attempts to police science. The affair reached a critical point last week when a preliminary NIH report of the latest investigation was leaked to the press. That draft asserts % that Imanishi-Kari faked her results and that Baltimore failed to take the allegation seriously enough...