Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LATEST HARVARD symbol of choice is a black hat that reads "FCS." Ask someone wearing one, they'll tell you it stands for Final Clubs Suck...
...this real-life Crusader Rabbit was just getting warmed up. General Motors -- that ossified symbol of America's industrial decline -- volunteered for the Perot treatment when the giant automaker bought EDS in 1984 and GM chairman Roger Smith looked to this take-no-prisoners Texan to shake up the hidebound hierarchy. Within two years, Perot was going public with his bitter and prophetic denunciations of the GM bureaucracy ("I could never understand why it takes six years to build a car when it only took us four years to win World War II"), and the company ultimately paid...
...leaf, which they then took back home. Spanish nobles picked up the habit, and merchants spread it to the rest of Europe. By some accounts, Spain took more wealth out of the New World in tobacco than in gold and silver. In the American colonies, the cigar became a symbol of winner-take-all capitalism and flinty frontier grit...
...time, membership in the club was considered a political asset, not a liability. But Bush's opponents have lambasted his youthful club ties as a symbol of his attachment to elitist, uppercrust society...
...jury convicted three men of knifing a Utah tourist to death in a New York City subway station. The 1990 murder of young Brian Watkins became a painful symbol of random urban violence. Watkins died attempting to protect his family from robbers...