Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fire with an electric space heater. She had to wait 31½ weeks for the public housing authority to make repairs. She still is without regular heat. More than a decade ago, dynamite and wrecking balls claimed St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe, the nation's high-rise symbol of all that was wrong with public housing...
...moral soul. Founded largely because of the Holocaust, Israel had until recent years been looked upon as the threatened underdog. The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza changed some minds, but it was the Lebanese invasion--according to some, an offensive not defensive action--that became the symbol of Israel's eroding morality...
Charlotte Gardens is the project of a nonprofit local agency, the South Bronx Development Organization, which five years ago took on the burden of salvaging the neighborhood. Until recently the area was so celebrated a symbol of urban decay that Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan both traveled there to voice concern and promise federal assistance that never quite seemed to materialize. Instead, the development organization, noting the success of a few tenants' association takeovers and restorations, concluded that owner occupancy of South Bronx buildings would spur reconstruction. The first 90 homes have already been sold, more than half...
...Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.). Along the highway leading out of the capital of San Salvador, trees are beribboned with the red-white-and-blue emblems of D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance, known by its Spanish acronym of ARENA. Sidewalk intersections are spray-painted with the green fish symbol of ARENA'S chief rival in the eight-party presidential race, the centrist Christian Democrats led by Jose Napoleon Duarte. On El Salvador's four television channels, political advertisements exhort voters to choose the man among the many who can save the country...
...church and state on real threats to this principle, such as efforts to reinstitute school prayer and to require the teaching of Christian creationism in public schools. Opening relations with the Vatican is a sensible step in diplomacy but it should not be taken as more of a symbol than...