Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those bare facts seemed suspicious enough in 1974 to touch off a series of newspaper and magazine articles by investigative reporters. The Silkwood case was quickly embraced by environmentalists, nuclear energy foes, feminists and civil libertarians. They saw the Kerr-McGee facility near Crescent, Okla., as an ugly symbol of an industry seeking profits while endangering its employees and nearby communities. Last week, for the first time, the case moved into a public courtroom. Silkwood's family is seeking $11.5 million in damages from Kerr-McGee for exposing her to dangerous levels of plutonium. Its other...
...freedom." "We fought for freedom with the men," one woman explained. "None of us knew freedom would come with chains." Political fashions were changing fast: many of the women now denouncing the veil as a mark of repression gladly wore the all-covering chador as an anti-Shah symbol during the revolution...
...weeks ago, the white-dominated, 66-seat Parliament that had been a symbol of minority rule for years closed for the last time. If all proceeds as planned, next month's election will return a new, 100-member Assembly that will have 72 black and 28 white members. Though Smith will run for a seat and hopes for a Cabinet post, the next Prime Minister of Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, as the country is to be known, will almost certainly be Muzorewa, who leads the largest of the black nationalist parties. Even so, only South Africa has agreed to recognize the majority...
This restriction on an act which does not affect the safety of the general public is both unjustifiable and wrong. That Mr. Yates now has a criminal record because he climbed a mountain is ludicrous. Mr. Yates succeeded where few others could have. His act should serve as a symbol of the wrongness of a system which arrests people for climbing a mountain. Frank L. Lowenstein...
...magnate Dr. Schön, Lulu's patron and eventual husband. The rest of the cast was excellent too: Tenor Robert Tear as a naive painter undone by Lulu, and Bass-Baritone Toni Blankenheim as the mysterious Schigolch, Lulu's father, a former lover or perhaps a symbol of death...