Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, a 46-week-old strike in London has become a riveting symbol of the Labor government's failure to keep labor peace. Charter Road in northwest London has become the scene of ugly battles between police and protesters as a result of a walkout at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories...
...heroin and nearly as available as marijuana in many major cities. The drug's ingredients are not only widely known but easy to assemble in basement labs. Equally important, the drug stirs a reaction within minutes. Hence it has become what one California official calls an instant macho symbol: "If you can take it and survive, it is evidence that you are a real...
...shop parlance here at TIME, this is known as an "inside cover." To bill this feature consistently! clearly and (we hope) attractively, we have devised the flap in the upper right-hand corner of this week's cover. Another new element is not a matter of design: the symbol in the lower left-hand corner is a universal product code that will help TIME'S distributors keep track by computer of their volume of sales...
...half were arrested and held in custody, but the police had nothing to do but direct traffic when their opponents came to town. Pointedly minding their manners, the 3,000 marchers demanded that work promptly be resumed on the 2.3 million-kilowatt facility, which is rapidly becoming a leading symbol in the national debate over nuclear power...
...warning to the republic's neighbors that they should not interfere with Djibouti before independence, France beefed up the garrison with 1,000 extra paratroopers and legionnaires. The carrier Foch came steaming into the harbor, a symbol of both celebration and precaution. For a time after independence, the French will continue to guard the republic's frontiers against aggression (the Somalian border is only ten miles from downtown Djibouti, Ethiopia a mere 50 miles away). But diplomats here speculate that France will withdraw entirely if a major struggle erupts over Djibouti, rather than risk involvement...