Word: symbolically
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Mondale, to his political detriment, is the consummate symbol of Democratic traditionalism. To a large extent, he retains his faith in the efficacy of Government. He often approaches great national issues not with overarching vision, but like a train conductor punching tickets. On education, he heeded the teachers' union opposition to merit pay, and promised instead more pay for all teachers. On foreign trade, he rejected warnings of a trade war and endorsed a protectionist bill backed by the autoworkers' union that would save their jobs but raise prices for consumers. The huge federal deficit-Reagan...
...meter heats, but lost her legal argument that, in fairing to provide women with 5,000- and 10,000-meter opportunities, the Games unfairly discriminate. Said dissenting Court of Appeals Judge Harry Pregerson last week: "The Olympic flame, which should be a symbol of harmony, equality and justice, will burn less brightly over the Los Angeles Olympic Games." But Decker jogged on. She qualified for the team by easily winning the 3,000 and seemed likely to staff the 1,500 as well...
What started as a venturesome symbol, attacked as blatant commercialism by the Soviets when they boycotted the Summer Games, has become a national phenomenon, provoking an outpouring of good feeling for community and country. Flown to the U.S. in miner's lamps from Greece, the Olympic flame is being carried on a serpentine 82-day, 8,700-mile journey through 33 states to the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. The runners include more than 200 regulars (a team of experienced amateur runners sponsored by A T & T who form the core of the relay) and 3,500 local...
...borrowed heavily to expand during the years of rural prosperity and is now being pinched by the same combination of high interest rates and falling land values that bedevils much of rural America. In the process, Block is becoming for certain farm-state Democrats a deliciously ironic political symbol of agricultural troubles that persist despite the Administration policies that Block helps...
India-no-place, then, might just be a symbol of the past...