Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's great that they are doing it [at the Union] to make people more conscious and aware," Heather B. Gormon '99 said. "It's good symbol of unity to have it bi-partisan...
Dean of the Law School Robert C. Clark, in a brief introduction, called Redstone an "extraordinary symbol of the value of law training for the business world...
...flap is especially painful for CBS because 60 Minutes has long managed to remain aloof from the network's ups and downs--a steady symbol (and often vocal defender) of the old standards and traditions. The controversy stems from a 60 Minutes story that was to include an interview with a former tobacco-industry executive seeking to blow the whistle on alleged misdeeds by his former employer. But the interview was killed after CBS lawyers raised concerns about possible lawsuits that the network could face from the tobacco industry if it were...
...concentrates more and more on Ginger's increasingly desperate and degrading attempts to escape Sam's smothering affections, the film winds neurotically in on itself. And neither the controlled rage of De Niro's playing nor the entrapped ferocity of Stone's, as she breaks definitively with her sex-symbol past, can prevent the film--and its audience--from sinking into a been-here, seen-that mood...
...Bosnian state encompassing these two parts will have a central government, a presidency and a parliament. The government will be elected by voters throughout the bifurcated state, under international election supervision. No indicted war criminals may hold office. The city of Sarajevo, the besieged Bosnian capitol that became a symbol of the horror and courage, remains unified under Bosnian control. Refugees will return home. The potentially traumatic process of repatriating those refugees was not clearly spelled out this morning, though President Clinton did say that an independent commission will monitor the human rights of all Bosnians, and that an internationally...