Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both sides claimed victory in the battle, which immediately became a symbol of the stalemated wider war. In a rare Moscow briefing on the Afghan conflict, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said last Tuesday that government forces broke the siege and killed or wounded 1,500 rebels. Insurgent leaders in Pakistan called the statement a "bluff" and a "blatant...
...Sovereign, scheduled to arrive in the Port of Miami this week to begin service for the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, is a glittering symbol of a new Golden Age for passenger ships. In the 1950s the onset of jet travel left the * cruise industry dead in the water. But through the '80s the business has been growing at flank speed. Roughly 1.5 million North Americans took cruises in 1982; by 1987 that figure had doubled...
Even in the numbers game, though, ominous signs point to a retrenchment. Within the past couple of seasons, the Oakland Symphony has folded, and the San Diego Symphony temporarily suspended operations. The Houston Symphony, once a glittering symbol of a booming community, now reflects its city's stagnant economy: its music director is leaving, and there has been an administrative shuffle as well. The San Francisco Opera, one of the nation's largest companies, canceled its summer season because of a $2 million deficit. Says Tully Friedman, president of the company's board: "We're going to have to retool...
...proclaims them to be. Even so, his reforms can no longer be dismissed as a mere matter of style, of a telegenic new face in the Kremlin. Gorbachev is that, to be sure. Also a dedicated Communist. Also a ruthless political opportunist. In 1987 he became something more, a symbol of hope for a new kind of Soviet Union: more open, more concerned with the welfare of its citizens and less with the spread of its ideology and system abroad. For fanning that hope, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is TIME's Man of the Year...
...delicate young man she once loved, and who hastened his death by courting her, used to sing it. In their hotel room, Gretta tells her husband Gabriel (Donal McCann) about this lost love, arousing an unworthy jealousy. She falls asleep, and he stares out the window, as the snow -- symbol of the universe's indifference to petty social preoccupations and petty emotions too -- falls "upon all the living and the dead." Nature, playing no favorites, blankets them all together...