Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every type of voter. Blue-collar, urban ethnic voters, especially Roman Catholics, will listen to her, they think, because she is one of them: the Catholic daughter of an Italian immigrant who represents a conservative blue-collar district. Well-educated suburbanites may be attracted to her as a symbol of new ideas and new departures in politics, even though her voting record in the House followed a rather traditional liberal Democratic line. Democrats hope she will win voters under 40, who in recent polls seemed to be turning heavily toward Reagan. That 2 is an ominous signal to Democrats...
Woodhull, who eventually married a rich English banker, provided a meteoric symbol of change, but it was the regiments of suffragist foot soldiers who steadily kept applying the pressure, state by state. Their key opportunity came with the entry of various Western territories into the union. The new constitution of Wyoming (1890) was the first to include women's suffrage; then came Colorado (1893), Utah and Idaho...
...Phoenix air-to-air missile has become a symbol for both critics and supporters of the Pentagon's penchant for high-tech weaponry: at $950,000 a shot, it is designed to be launched from the Navy's supersophisticated F-14 fighter jets and to home in on enemy planes using computer-guided radar - when it works. Last week the Navy, which budgeted $388.7 million for the missiles this fiscal year, publicly complained about the quality of the product. It told Hughes Aircraft Co. it would no longer accept shipments because of "marginal workmanship." Said one Navy officer...
Revived by falling gasoline prices, four-wheel-drive vehicles, including Jeeps and many trucks, have become the fastest-growing market segment. Jeep sales are up 108% in 1984. Says Joe Ricci, who operates dealerships in Florida, Illinois and Michigan: "It's become a cult car and status symbol." Not all of the cultists are men. Since the station wagon-shaped Jeep Cherokee was slimmed down, women have accounted for 30% of the sales...
...produce income for medical care, weddings, funerals and education. The long-legged, lean porker was also a helpful consumer of weeds and even human wastes. And of no small importance, hougans (priests) regularly appease their demanding Petro gods with the blood of a black pig, the preferred sacrificial symbol of voodoo...