Word: symbolics
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...regime likes to blame much of what it regards as decadent behavior on Western influence, particularly that of the U.S. And there is no more powerful symbol of Iran's rigid stance before the outside world than the 25-acre American embassy compound at Ayatullah Talagani Street. Today it is in the hands of the Revolutionary Guards, its walls still daubed with the students' anti-American slogans...
Despite Coke's conciliatory action, the damage had already been done. Says Lee Wilder, who follows Coke for Robinson Humphrey, the Atlanta-based investment firm: "Coke is an American symbol. The company opened itself to a lot of embarrassment by putting its name on foreign-made clothes. It was plain dumb...
...even taken a page from civil rights struggles elsewhere by promoting a living symbol for the anti-dam movement. Ge Quanxiao, a farmer from the Jinsha River area, stands to lose his home to a planned dam. Yu arranged elocution lessons for Ge and taught him to protect himself by invoking political slogans introduced by China's leader, Hu Jintao. He brought Ge to Beijing to address a United Nations Development Program conference on dams and plead for villagers' right to review settlement plans. Most of all, Yu armed Ge with information to take back to his fellow villagers...
Professors and administrators say the $50 million allocation toward the implementation of the task force recommendations is a symbol of Summers’ dedication to the proposals...
Like anyone else who’s ever come to Harvard, the Yard was firmly planted in my brain as the sole symbol of the school long before I had even stepped foot in Memorial Hall, or knew about The Crimson, or what HUPD stood for, or how to get inside Widener, or where Hollis was (still not sure of that). My earliest memories of the Yard jibe with the way I sometimes see it in old woodcuts: quiet, orderly, stately in its serenity—with the modern addition of the tourists who come to admire the red brick...