Word: symbolized
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Roughly half the ceiling at the National Restaurant Association's headquarters in Washington has been torn out to make way for a new sprinkler system. Though unintentional, it's a fitting symbol of President Clinton's proposal to install a 50% ceiling on the deductibility of business meals. Unfortunately, nobody at this 75-year-old trade association is in the mood for irony. "If the government keeps going the way it is, you won't have any fine- dining establishments in America," grumbles chief executive William Fisher, as he chows down a power lunch at nearby Mo Sussman's restaurant...
...face of the alarming religious and political turmoil prevailing in South Asia at this moment, I think that 'Ghungroo' serves as an important symbol of the unity among a fifth of the world's population," said audience member Faruk A. Khan...
Mobutu still managed to cut a dashing if reptilian figure on the international stage. Resplendent in his leopardskin toque, symbol of his authority as a traditional tribal chief, the jovial dictator has had little difficulty charming nearly all U.S. Presidents stretching back to John Kennedy. Political friendships with a long line of leaders in China, Romania, France, North Korea, South Africa and Israel (where he trained as a paratrooper) made him a widely traveled statesman. Some were seduced by Mobutu's eagerness to serve as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in the heart of Africa, others by Zaire's natural...
...Haitian refugees are the most visible symbol of what may be the next unnecessary controversy to distract the Clinton Administration from its attempt to focus on economic issues. Last week the President announced plans to lift the ban that prevents foreigners with the AIDS virus from immigrating to -- or even visiting -- the U.S. Most medical experts support the change on the grounds that the virus is not easily transmitted. "This shouldn't be a hot-button issue, especially when you consider the lack of a public health threat," says Dr. June Osborn, chairman of the National Commission on AIDS...
...every perception that we were straight as arrows." In 1972, at age 77, the omnipotent FBI chief became the first civil servant to be granted a state funeral, at which he was eulogized by Richard Nixon in the Rotunda of the Capitol as "one of the giants . . . a national symbol of courage, patriotism and granite-like honesty and integrity." But the year before, bedeviled by fallout from his efforts to tap the phones of journalists, the President had confided to John Ehrlichman, "We may have on our hands here a man who will pull the temple down with him, including...