Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...image is well chosen. Just two years ago, high-definition television (HDTV) was a symbol of everything that was wrong with the American electronics industry. After ceding most of the market for today's television sets to Japanese and European manufacturers, the U.S. was about to lose the market for tomorrow's TVs as well. It seemed only a matter of time before U.S. consumers started replacing their squat, fuzzy receivers with crisp, wide- screen sets built around a made-in-Japan technology called analog HDTV...
...Even the electronics industry, for many a symbol of Japan's economic might, is suffering. Though income from its foreign subsidiaries, including its newly buoyant movie and record business in America, will allow giant Sony to declare a worldwide profit of $1.2 billion, its core business at home is expected to lose $156 million for fiscal 1991, its first loss ever. As a result, Sony plans to lop off $2.15 billion from its capital-spending budget and $1.8 billion from...
This signal of sinister hatred has reached outraged groups and individuals around the world. The Sebbagh and Saad murders have become a symbol of the struggle to free Syrian Jews. The blood of those innocent women, shed 18 years ago, was not spilled in vain...
...also become a symbol of the Administration's blind spots. Chief among them is failure to formulate a vision for America's future course in the wake of the cold war. The fundamental principle of American foreign policy since 1945 -- the containment of communism -- makes no sense today. The chief task now is to meet new challenges, like the tough economic competition from Europe and East Asia and the combustible nationalism of a host of small nations. In such a world, none of the past approaches to American policy -- from Woodrow Wilson's global do-goodism to Henry Kissinger...
...place. Is this the South Florida portrayed in TIME's grim "Paradise Lost?" cover story of 1981? Booth reports that guns and drugs remain big local businesses but that "Miami is no longer the nation's murder capital, or even its money- laundering capital. Miami Beach is a symbol of change. These days they're shooting models ((with cameras)), not criminals, in trendy neighborhoods of South Beach." The renovated Art Deco hotels are populated by European tourists, she says. Some of them are from glamorous Rome...