Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that had helped me so much," he later explained. "I lay down in the snow and said, 'Not another step.' " The guards scrutinized the book carefully, then handed it back. The elaborately negotiated release of Anatoli Shcharansky, one of the Soviet Union's most famous political prisoners and a symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews and human rights dissidents alike, proceeded as planned...
...staple for all varsity athletes, sweatsuits serve as practice uniforms--the more practical side of this fashionable status symbol...
Founded soon after the Gold Rush of 1849, Wells Fargo is California's oldest bank. Last week the San Francisco company, which still uses its familiar stagecoach symbol, scooped up some glittering gold dust when it agreed to pay Britain's Midland Bank $1.08 billion for Crocker National, another San Francisco bank. If the deal goes through, the combination of Wells Fargo (1985 assets: $29.4 billion) and Crocker will be the largest banking merger in U.S. history. The agreement ended six months of secret negotiations between Wells Fargo and Midland executives. No one at Crocker had known that a deal...
...appeal of an island is older than prose. It is a universal symbol, as valid for the isolated state as for the besieged heart. In this lean, piercing novel, Lisa Grunwald renews the metaphor by making Sanders Island, off Cape Cod, Mass., a garden and a desert. The narrator, Jennifer Burke, is the younger daughter of what seems an ideal couple: Milo and Lulu Burke are so devoted that they have always refused to fly in separate planes because "they wouldn't have wanted to go on without each other...
Anatoli Shcharansky, 38, is only one of an estimated 10,000 political prisoners in the U.S.S.R., but he has come to stand as a compelling symbol of Soviet repression. A Jewish computer specialist, Shcharansky graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1972, at a time when long pent-up yearnings for freedom and justice were coming into the open in the Soviet Union. As a genuine human- rights movement coalesced, Shcharansky was fired up by its libertarian ideals and began working with groups that were pressing for large-scale Jewish immigration to Israel. At the same time...