Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his bartender good looks, the NYPD Blue star became TV's reigning Everyguy sex symbol. But his dreams were grander. Caruso shocked fans when he left the show after just one season to pursue movie stardom...
...statement, cutting welfare may make more sense. For voters who moved into the Republican column in November, welfare has a significance that goes beyond the numbers. For some, of course, it's just a racial code word, even though most beneficiaries are white. For many others it's a symbol of how government programs can promote dependency and fatherless children in the name of compassion. For Americans to insist upon welfare reform doesn't represent "hostility to people who are poor because of bad luck," says Douglas Besharov, a senior policy analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute...
...until 1992, three years after the critics were brutally silenced in Tiananmen Square, that the communist rulers rammed the project through the National People's Congress. Even today, as construction finally gets rolling, the dam still draws fire from environmentalists around the world. To opponents, it is a symbol of mankind's monstrous interventions in nature, an enterprise that will not only displace people but also devastate wildlife and alter the landscape forever...
...inhumane prison conditions were. They have also moved aggressively to arrest anyone they thought might be a bad guy. "We detained them. We cuffed them," acknowledges the commanding officer, Colonel Mark Boyatt. "We did this without a whole lot of proof. But it was a very visible symbol of our presence. It convinced the people we were there to help them." For Haitians traumatized by generations of dictatorship, the Americans' unconventional tactics carry a most welcome and powerful magic...
...Confederate Flag is a symbol not of the American south, but of the Confederate south. As such, it should be a mark not of southern pride, but of southern shame. --Jeffrey Collins Ph.D. Candidate Department of History