Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When antiwar activists look at an inverted Y inside a circle, they see a symbol for peace. But some school officials in Pasadena, Texas, detect something satanic: an upside-down broken cross that signifies the defeat of Christianity. This week they will vote on a new student dress code that would allow principals to outlaw the sign...
...gambling-related information that came out of the two-day hearing shocked fans who had embraced Rose as a symbol for baseball. Radio and television carried large segments of the testimony live...
...complex of shops and restaurants where warehouses once stood, Underground Atlanta was meant to be a symbol of the city's new vibrancy when it opened in 1969. Instead, it became a study in urban failure: thieves and rowdy teenagers patrolled abandoned storefronts as shoppers fled to the suburbs. The place was shuttered...
...every schoolchild used to know, is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. But in the electronic age, the ancient Babylonian constant -- or rather the accurate calculation of its value -- has become a symbol of computational prowess. In the 1950s the U.S. led the way, churning out estimates of pi accurate to thousands and tens of thousands of decimal places. Then the French took the lead. With the emergence of Japan's supercomputer industry in the 1980s, pi has become an almost exclusive province of the Japanese. The last world record, 201 million digits...
...glittering glass-and-steel Bank of China, Southeast Asia's tallest building and a prominent addition to Hong Kong's spectacular skyline, was to embody the faith that both Hong Kong and China placed in a common future, a visible symbol of the "one country, two systems" promised when the British crown colony reverts to China in 1997. Last week two enormous black-and-white banners drooped across the tower's facade bearing a grim message in Chinese characters: BLOOD MUST BE PAID WITH BLOOD...