Word: symbolization
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...transformed a quiet business that had changed little since the New Haven (Conn.) District Telephone Co. published the first such directory in 1878: a one-page roster of eleven residences and 39 doctors, factories and other commercial listings. Since neither the name Yellow Pages nor the walking-fingers symbol is a protected trademark (they passed into generic use long before AT&T's divestiture), anyone can employ them. Many consumers no longer know whose directories they are using. Southern Bell calls its 242 editions the "Real Yellow Pages," while other publishers have adopted distinctive names in order to stand...
...Development, a business and academic group, stressed improvement in education as a key to restoring U.S. industry's ability to match foreign competition. In the view of Democratic Pollster Stanley Greenberg, many voters consider a candidate's stand on all issues affecting children, prominently including education, to be a symbol of how he will deal with "their concerns about sea changes in the modern family and in the American economy...
...tower, ersatz campaniles and creme brulee surface of glass-and-granite panels, it would be a postmodern monument -- Notre Dame redesigned by Gaudi and enlarged to monstrous proportions. "Tange's city hall is garish," says Architect Takefumi Aida, "so much so that it would end up looking like a symbol of Japan as a nouveau riche state. I can't stand...
...emphasis often on adult), the Esalen Institute, perched on the windswept cliffs of Big Sur, Calif., along one of the loveliest stretches of unreal estate in the world, has long been the Platonic model of an Aquarian think tank. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, it has also become a symbol for the beauty, and something of the folly, of the peculiarly American belief that perfection is just a day away...
What if the Zambezi Valley proves to be the rhino's Little Big Horn? Conservationists fear that more is at stake than the possible extinction of a fascinating relic of animal antiquity. "The rhino is a symbol of all endangered wildlife," says Chief Warden Tatham. "If we lose the rhino, will the elephant be next? And after the elephants are gone, will we lose the rest of the game? This is a war we simply must...