Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council voted instead to set up a "suitable universal symbol" in the foyer of the building...
...Councillor Sheila T. Russell, who sponsored the order calling for the Christmas tree, said she was surprised at the objections. She said the tree was a holiday symbol, with no specific religious conotations...
...defense sought to portray Milken as a concerned citizen who taught math to inner-city children and donated large sums of money to charity, while striving to overcome his image as the personification of Wall Street greed. "Our goal was to make Michael a human being rather than a symbol," said a Milken source...
...interest of ideological pluralism and bright colors, I would like to humbly present a new, unofficial campus group. This group is named ENOUGH and its symbol is a chartreuse irregular quadrangle. ENOUGH is not politically correct or proper, or even particularly aware. In fact, it isn't even a clever acronym. ENOUGH is ENOUGH...
...will take education, not just laws, to halt what Africans view as a symbol of their culture. Asks Birhane Ras-Work, president of the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices: "How do you eradicate a tradition that is more powerful than a legal system...