31.   Having successfully battled the government over the distribution of power in the Tennessee Valley, Willkie was a national symbol of opposition of the New Deal.

32.   He blames regulators, the media and politicians for making him a national symbol of greed and financial fraud, the poster boy for the savings and loan scandal.

33.   He has become a national symbol for the heroism of his Fire Department.

34.   If Arafat does die, he has no obvious successor as either Palestinian leader or national symbol.

35.   If you want to tromp across a national symbol for the seemingly lost cause of affirmative action, you want the Golden Gate Bridge.

36.   I would rather rely on stigma and social condemnation to protect the national symbol than on prison terms.

37.   In a concession to national loyalties, though, a small space has been reserved where the nations printing the Euro can insert their own national symbols.

38.   In Canada, shippers and farmers are concerned, while nationalists see the proposed merger as the loss of a revered national symbol.

39.   In the West Bank city of Nablus, Zuheir al-Dibi, a Muslim prayer leader, said he had stopped viewing Arafat as a national symbol.

40.   Instead of the bald eagle, our national symbol should be a microwave oven.