Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan essentially was out to protect his Strategic Defense Initiative, known as Star Wars. He wanted to prove that he could restore civil, if not exactly harmonious, relations with the Soviets without making any major concessions on SDI. So he was happy to conduct a meeting that was mostly symbol and little substance. He succeeded. After growling that there would be no point to a summit if the U.S. remained adamant on SDI, Gorbachev came anyway and acted amiable. Crows one Reagan adviser: "We gave up almost nothing at Geneva and the world did not come apart. That...
King became a symbol of something. Wallace became a symbol of something else. Now King is a national holiday. Wallace is an extinct volcano, to tamper with Disraeli's phrase...
...fled Mexico in 1982, after his friend President Jose Lopez Portillo left office. Since 1984 Mexican authorities have sought to get hold of Durazo, who has become a symbol of widespread police corruption. That year FBI agents arrested him when he stepped off a private jet in Puerto Rico. Durazo fought extradition through the U.S. court system, but last week he received a final thumbs-down from two Supreme Court Justices and was sent back to Mexico City to face charges...
...powerful symbol of the sacred at the heart of the bustling city," says Father Smith...
...Monastics serve as a powerful symbol...of single-minded consistency in a life where fidelity and consistency are very hard to find," he adds. "People who make a consistent life choice to orientate their lives around the search for God often have a magnetic effect on people which helps them make their choices and take the risks of consistency. We will be together through thick or thin and we'll still be here 10 years from now. People will always say to us `you're always there...