Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a rebel band does get hold of a modern Kalashnikov, the weapon is likely to end up as a status symbol in the hands of the tribal elder, while the younger warriors, men with better eyesight and surer footing, are left to fight with bolt-action British Lee-Enfield rifles...
...symbol for all liberals in 1 the party. He was the symbol of hope that it could change." The subject of that description by a Polish journalist was Stefan Bratkowski, 47, one of the Polish Communist Party's leading advocates of cooperation with the independent Solidarity union and the Roman Catholic Church. Bratkowski's liberalism cost him his party membership last week...
...proposed new regulations, announced by the Agriculture Department, for school lunch programs that would have classified catsup as a vegetable. The resulting furor forced the Administration into a hasty and embarrassing announcement that the rules were being recalled for redrafting. Even so, they remain in many minds a symbol of what critics see as the Reagan team's callous indifference to the poor...
...often causes them to be overly vocal. Holland's recent disasters have resulted directly from a lack of vision and planning in the Foreign Office. The new building for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, now under construction, seems to lack windows in its design. With hope, this is no symbol of the new Foreign Minister's future perceptiveness, as some politicians have already suggested...
...whole, I was quite disturbed by one incident. This is when one BSA executive commented on the freshman class Blacks being seated at meals interspersed throughout the Union, rather than at exclusively "Black tables" as most have done in past years. He condemned this, and labeled it as a symbol of a "lack of solidarity." To this, many other members nodded their approval. I, however, represent a number of students in the meeting who disapproved of the brother's conjecture...