Word: symbolized
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...Gradually between the 1940s and the 1960s, the word 'dependent' went from defining the children to their poor mothers," she said. "Today, although Blacks are a minority of welfare recipients, the Black woman has become a symbol of dependency...
Foster could pass this test because she was always a bright young woman as well as a symbol of precocious girlhood. At seven, she had entered Los Angeles' Lycee Francais, where she would perfect her French and emerge as valedictorian before heading off to Yale. So the child star could be expected to have thoughts, and to turn thoughts into sentences. Even today her teen talk is worth attending to, as another kind of Jodie Foster retrospective...
...among voters. "The economy will have to take a real nose-dive for him to lose the election," says Larry Sabato, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia. But he also contends that if Bush vetoes the unemployment bill, "the Democrats will have a very powerful symbol for how they have been trying to depict Bush -- as friend of the rich, uncaring about ordinary people...
...much of supply-side thinking. Last week Senator Phil Gramm of Texas revived a proposal for a cut in the capital-gains tax. Bush also touted the reduction, along with some other stimulants that he had proposed to Congress last year. The capital-gains cut, however, has become a symbol of Bush's supposed elitism. That won't fly in times like these, and Republicans know it. But because of budget restraints, neither will the classic recession remedies -- increased government spending and tax reductions...
...Chinese symbol for crisis is the same as the Chinese symbol for opportunity. It is important to me that someone is in office who can turn crisis into opportunity...