You know, what's really happened, Alex, is this debate's become more symbol than substance.
If Solyndra is more symbol than scandal, its lasting significance is that it is helping to swell public sentiment in a way that can have direct bearing on how businesses like Ford communicate.
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Owning a piece of Facebook might be more status symbol than growth investment.
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"All things being equal, if you've got a more memorable ticker symbol, then people will be remembering you more, " says Ryan Issakainen, ETF strategist at First Trust.
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Few think she can be more than a symbol, although she plans to run against Mahathir in elections due by 2000.
And so in some ways I think they gave me the prize but I was more just a symbol of the shift in our approach to world affairs that we are trying to promote.
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At ten grand a flat-screen becomes more of a status symbol than anything.
It's not exactly a status symbol any more, at least not in the U.S., after it got left in the dust by the iPhone.
To Generation Y, a status symbol is more likely to be whether or not it has the new iPad or a certain level of freedom.
It is being called the Scarf of Hope and it aims to be more than just a symbol of Peru's estimated 15, 000 "disappeared" but a physical reminder that in the majority of cases their relatives live on without ever knowing how they died nor where to find their remains.
Beyond that, Cruz's developing fortunes are more than just a powerful symbol.
To others, Wattendorf's presidency is a symbol of something more high-minded about the school: Its black students were willing to look beyond race.
Their experience is different -- it's more about that three-striped symbol, with the Atari name underneath.
Played solo or as part of an ensemble during festivities, prayers, work, funerals and more, the balafon is a symbol of community identity.
In this case the infinity symbol changes from the more basic form on the necklace, bracelet and pendant to more complicated interpretations for the rings and earrings.
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The other a symbol and a leader of a more transnational movement.
Big, blocky, black, with painted-out windows, it looks more like a police mortuary van than a symbol of hope arriving on your street.
No one embodied that myth in the eyes of many more surely than Thomas Edison, the very symbol of the tinkering genius alone (supposedly) in his lab.
More than a newly paved motorway, the symbol of Sino-Brazilian relations is a cache of 66, 000 Brazilian army uniforms, which tax authorities recently discovered being smuggled into the country.
And more particularly, interracial friendship was seen as a symbol of whether or not democracy could work.
More than a physical commodity, gold is a symbol, harking back to the times when the world's monetary systems were based on it.
At the same time, China is proving a boon to Coach's sales, as residents that have become more affluent buy the retailer's status-symbol bags.
As the flower became more popular, it became a highly sought after status symbol for people.
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The gun itself is a little more than a pretext and a lot less than a symbol: it serves mostly to get her involved in the mysterious life of her across-the-street neighbor, Skippy (James LeGros), a scruffy, shifty-eyed young man who has a big crush on her.
Apple is a symbol of American innovation, but it has created more jobs in China than in America.
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One of them is Martyn Hunter, a 21-year-old from Kirkcaldy in Fife, who believes the collapse of Realtime was more a sign of rapid change in the industry, rather than a symbol of its decline.
More than the death of a human being, this ends the life of a powerful symbol of terrorism and destruction, said Nadine Kaslow, psychologist at Emory University.
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