Word: banners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unions will begin the demonstration at 11a.m. next to the Weeks Footbridge. Unionrepresentatives said there will be picket signs,an aerial banner flying over the Charles, andseveral speakers from the AFLCIO and the airlineunions. Jackson is scheduled to speak at noon...
Republican running mate Dan Quayle swiftly declared Bush the winner. But overhead, a small plane carried a banner of dissent. "Dukakis 1. Bush 0," it read...
...been unduly pessimistic, but not by much. Most visibly, the glossy hotels and clubs that pull in the island's tourist trade were left a shambles, especially in the popular north-coast resort areas of Montego Bay and Ocho Rios. The banana crop, which was expected to produce a banner 50,000- ton harvest this year (up from just 10,000 tons in 1984), was largely destroyed. So were the coconut, coffee, sugar and winter-vegetable crops -- and, not a triviality, the ganja, or marijuana, crop, which means cash to many rural Jamaicans...
...Rangoon, cheering and clapping, chanting and waving flags. As the numbers swelled into the hundreds of thousands, representatives from almost all walks of Burmese life could be identified among the waves of protesters who marched 20 abreast through the capital. Roman Catholic priests and nuns paraded behind a banner proclaiming JESUS LOVES DEMOCRACY. Government employees brandished a MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS sign, while retired military men proudly unfurled a banner reading ASSOCIATION OF FORMER COMMANDERS AND OLD COMRADES. From self-identified housewives to state factory workers and students, all were there to demand...
East Germany first competed in the Olympics under its own flag at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich. The hammer-and-compass banner was hoisted in victory 66 times, countering the G.D.R.'s image as a walled outcast with the impression of an athletic marvel. Four years later, in the last Summer Games not boycotted by a major competitor, East Germany, with 17 million people, earned 40 gold medals; the U.S., with over 200 million, won 34. National medal counts and per capita ratios are, of course, hardly the stuff of Olympic ideals, nor should athletics be pursued for political...