Word: symbolization
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Even though Maryland's government has no obligation to support the private insurance fund, many customers might have got a false sense of security from the thrifts' prominently displayed decal symbol, which was designed to look very much like the official state seal. "The thing that's scaring me is that everyone else is scared," said Jeff Shank, an auto mechanic who took a four-hour lunch break to withdraw $14,000 in savings from an Old Court branch...
Indeed there has. The martini, once a symbol of American imbibing, memorialized in thousands of neon outlines of cocktail glasses, is becoming an amusing antique, like a downtown Art Deco apartment building. The new sign of the times? It should be the outline of the ubiquitous green Perrier bottle. Whether it is imported from exotic locales or comes from a local spring, cool, clear water is the quaff of the moment. "Everyone is drinking Perrier and iced tea," observes Sondra Gotlieb, wife of the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. "White wine is almost daring now." The temperate mood is transforming...
Robin Room, director of the Alcohol Research Center in Berkeley, suggests that the advances made as a result of the current temperance mood could soon be reversed. Legislating against alcohol, he says, "can make it a potential symbol of rebellion, as it was for middle-class youth in the 1920s rebelling against Victorian morals. We're already seeing the signals on college campuses." Ironically, a return to heavier social drinking could come about because of the change in attitudes and laws. "If the temperance people succeed in curbing alcoholism and alcohol abuse," says Room, "the problem will pretty much disappear...
...said to have narrowly eluded Israeli agents who kidnaped fellow Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires--and then taken up residence in neighboring Paraguay, where he is rumored to be living today. Now 74, Dr. Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death," has become not only a symbol of evil but the world's most hunted and elusive war criminal. He also carries the largest bounty ever placed on a human being: $3.4 million...
...Polish flag last week became a heartbreaking symbol of the profound differences dividing the country. In the port city of Gdansk a few hundred people joined the official May Day parade and unfurled a long banner proclaiming SOLIDARITY IS FIGHTING. Suddenly flag-carrying onlookers, in reality plainclothes police, waded into the intruders, using the flagstaffs as clubs. They were quickly followed by ZOMO riot police and water cannons. Later in the day, other illegal demonstrations turned into full-blown street fights between young protesters and ZOMO; scores were injured...