71.   The trim uniform of the Boy Scouts has become almost a cherished national symbol.

72.   There is a stylized wolf, the national symbol, and some crudely drawn mountains, representing the Caucasus.

73.   These days, however, the national symbol might as well be the raw stump of an arm or a severed hand flopping to the red mud.

74.   They will be asked not to display any national symbols like flag patches sewn on their clothes.

75.   They have cast the argument as one of giving up the pound, a powerful national symbol.

76.   They have lost the local icon and the national symbol for Mariners baseball, the player who would have brought a slice of Cooperstown and baseball immortality to Seattle.

77.   Though they have become national symbols of the issue of marriage rights for same-sex couples, Ms. Baehr said they had encountered surprisingly little public reaction.

78.   Wars and revolutions have a way of shaking national symbols from the pedestals.

79.   Was Emperor Hirohito an active participant in war planning, and hence a criminal, or a largely powerless national symbol.

80.   With President Bush exhorting America to return to work and play, national symbols such as the Capitol and the White House still resemble armed and guarded fortresses.