Word: symbolization
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...Bird never liked the term "beautification." What she was doing went beyond that, something to hold the land, bring grace and meaning to scarred lives. "You reporters come up with another word," she used to say. But nobody has yet. Maybe it was unnecessary because she was her own symbol, a woman very much in harmony with the natural world around her. She rafted down rivers, camped out in the national parks, studied ruins. She also founded what is now named the Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower Center at the University of Texas...
...conference that she never told the police during many hours of questioning," complains one staffer, who says Mazuz settled for lesser charges against Katsav because of doubts about A's credibility as a witness. "It was a risk going to court, and we didn't want to damage the symbol of the presidency," says the source...
...deserve our consideration when we decide for whom to vote. Starting with "Does he or she share my vision of the country?" (For example, "Will he appoint Justices less likely to cite bromides about color blindness as if that settled everything?") But beyond this, the President is unavoidably a symbol, and a presidential candidate's "essential qualities" include his or her race...
None of this was any easier after 9/11 and the Iraq war, which suddenly made the hamburger a symbol of Yankee imperialism. For a while, McDonald's was shaken by the anti-American sentiment, which took the form of picketing, boycotts, vandalism and decreased sales. (However, since McDonald's in Egypt went 100% locally owned, sales have soared to nearly 10 million burgers a year at its 50 outlets.) Lucille's slowed down but with a staff of 46 Egyptians and her son Jason, a former Denny's manager, has been winning back Egyptian hearts and minds one burger...
...organizers of Hong Kong's annual July 1 pro-democracy march had hoped to strike the right sartorial chord by asking that demonstrators wear white - a symbol, they suggested, of the purity of the city's democratic hopes. It would have made a demonstrative change from the ubiquitous red Hong Kong and Chinese flags as the city marked - with parties, fireworks and a visit from Chinese Premier Hu Jintao - the tenth anniversary of the territory's return to China...