Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down the stairs to visit her grandmother, Zater Bolhar, who lived just a few floors away in the same apartment building. But Girl X's neighborhood is the partially vacant Cabrini-Green housing project on Chicago's near North Side, and the child's current anonymity is an apt symbol for the forgotten lives--and forgotten crimes--in this desolate inner-city area...
...still no cure for the common birthday." Glenn said, smiling. "Although my health remains excellent . . . another term in the Senate would take me at the end of that term to the age of 83." It was a typically modest exit for a man elected in 1972 as the symbol of a glorious time of progress, and whose fourth Senate term will end in 1998. Glenn marveled at technology's advances from his father's time to his own, and urged the students present to take up the mantle of the coming age. "As we enter a new century...
...John Greenwald. "ITT made its expected move, and Hilton will very likely raise its offer." If Hilton's combative CEO Stephen Bollenbach had his way, the takeover would create the world's largest owner of hotels and casinos with 230,000 rooms and 30 gambling palaces. Once the very symbol of the corporate conglomerate, ITT has in recent years been struggling to streamline its diverse business operations, which range from publishing phone directories to running Caesars Casinos and basking in the glory of the New York Knicks and Rangers...
...congruent poster. Another work in the room focuses on conspiritorial links within the League of Nations between the capitalist nations to destroy the Soviet "threat." Yet a more extreme print reworks a Russian fairy tale about evil people (fat capitalists) attempting to uproot a turnip (a national symbol), whereupon the turnip rises to the occassion and blows the bastards out of the country...
...birthday to announce the creation of a new organization to take his anti-affirmative-action show on the road--in honor of the slain civil rights leader. "Dr. King personifies the quest for a color-blind society," Connerly explains, "and I felt that it would be a great symbol to give birth to an organization that wants the nation to resume that journey on the birthday of the man who symbolizes it." Connerly claims he has the support of "a lot of people, black and white, who marched with Dr. King, who now say they really don't agree with...