Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversial Secretary of the Interior. First, his department announced plans to lift wilderness protection from more than 805,000 federally owned acres in ten Western and Southwestern states, possibly opening the land to various forms of development. Then, in a move that some conservationists dismissed as more symbol than substance, he laid to rest his longstanding intention of issuing oil and gas leases in existing wilderness areas...
...computers had appeared, a hobbyist machine called the Altair 8800 (cost: $395 in kit form, $621 assembled). The Altair soon vanished from the marketplace. But already there were other young and imaginative tinkerers out in Silicon Valley getting ready to produce personal computers, including one bearing an odd symbol: an apple with a bite taken out of it. Suddenly, the future was now. -By Frederic Golden
...Funding for the $3.6 billion Clinch River breeder reactor in Tennessee has long been a symbol of federal waste and environmental abuse. The House last week deleted funds for it and some other controversial projects, partly in retaliation against Congressmen who had led the fight against pay increases. But Clinch River has one invaluable patron in the Senate, Howard Baker. He told his staff that he had to reach deep into his pocket of lOUs in order to save the project, which he did on a 49-to-48 vote...
...always have Paris. It has inspired bits of business: Sydney Greenstreet bowing graciously to Ingrid Bergman in the Blue Parrot and then with brutal abstraction swatting a fly, which for the instant becomes the moral equivalent of any refugee in Casablanca. Or the alltime triumphant moment of literal-minded symbol-banging exposition: Claude Rains dropping the bottle of Vichy Water into a wastebasket and giving it a kick, the charming collaborator virtuous at last...
...everyone agrees with this stringently secularist approach. "If you take the symbol away from the celebration, it's almost a sterile, noncelebrative event," says Lynn Buzzard, executive director of the Christian Legal Society, adding that court attacks on Christmas scenes are "a trivialization of the Constitution." Henry Kinch, the current mayor of Pawtucket, agrees. "The A.C.L.U. wants to wring every bit of religion out of our daily life," he says. He will appeal the anti-crèche decision to the U.S. Supreme Court...