For critics of John Howard, he became a totem for much of what was wrong with the Bush administration's war on terror, and what they complained was the then prime minister's slavish support for the US president.
Before and for a while after the 1997 election he was a useful totem for New Labour in its efforts to show itself the party of "cool Britannia".
The beam, found in the wreckage of the World Trade Centre, was a totem for rescuers.
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Positioned at Pudong's tip, the Oriental Pearl Tower was a cartoonish totem for China's race into modernity and an emphatic counterpoint to the Bund, a strip of colonial-era buildings on the opposite Puxi bank of the Huangpu River.
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Bernie Ebbers, the boss of WorldCom, was charged with fraud only this week although the company he ran (into the ground) went bankrupt in July 2002, and the trial of Jeffrey Skilling, the former boss of Enron, the totem for turn-of-the-century managerial abuse, could well be another two years away.
As you drive north, look out for colourful wood-carved totem poles rising out of the ground.
Those jobs disappeared in the last 30 years when young wannabe coaches eschewed the high-school route for the low spot on the college totem pole.
If, as Ms. Taubman says, she truly believes that Indian contemporary art should be displayed by museums and galleries alongside mainstream contemporary art, why didn't she juxtapose, for example, an Ellsworth Kelly "Totem" with the Quigno?
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As you continue reading, use these tips not just for their practicality but also as tools for career advancement, regardless of your vantage point on the totem pole.
Whenever a celebrity dons a feather and long braids for a photo shoot, or a fashion brand releases a gaudy collection of "totem pole print" tracksuits, bloggers like Metcalfe and Keene are slammed with questions about why they're offensive.
However, once I was in college, I was surprised to hear how people reacted to being rejected by a college and that their choices for safety or last-resort schools were ones I considered fairly high up on the totem pole.
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