Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Love Canal. The very name of the chemical dumping site has become a symbol of the larger problem of hazardous waste disposal by corporations. Last week the Environmental Protection Agency moved to transform Love Canal from a national skull and crossbones to what it once was, a quiet residential neighborhood near Niagara Falls. The agency also established a new set of rules for dumping industrial wastes that could mean no more Love Canals in the future...
Today the man-in-the-moon symbol appears on everything the mighty marketeer (1981 sales: $11.4 billion) makes, including Crest toothpaste, Jif peanut butter and a host of soap and detergent products. Lately, however, it has become a major corporate problem because of a virulent whispering campaign alleging that the logo is satanic and that Procter & Gamble is somehow involved in the worship of the devil. The talk first surfaced in January 1980, and reappeared two years later when the firm began getting thousands of phone calls about stories that company officials had confessed on the Phil Donahue and Merv...
...restore purchasing power." In a single stroke, Lopez Portillo had wiped out most of the gains of the devaluation that had shaken his administration-and lost much of the prestige of his office. As he dolefully told one audience of Pemex workers: "Today I am a symbol of a devalued presidency...
...nation. Franklin opposed the selection of the American bald eagle as the centerpiece on the ground that it was "a bird of bad moral character" that sometimes steals food from other predators. Fortunately for the American psyche, Franklin's preference for the "more respectable" turkey as the national symbol was voted down...
...bird in proclaiming 1982 the "Bicentennial Year of the American Bald Eagle" and June 20 as "National Bald Eagle Day": "Its grace and power in flight, its vigilance and loyalty in defending its family group and, most of all its courage, make the eagle a proud and appropriate symbol for the United States...