The latest symbol of Hollywood's wasteful ways, "Ishtar" has drawn disappointing reviews and dwindling audiences, and is expected to wind up deeply in the red.

Terrell Owens is the latest symbol of a prosperous league built on marketing and reliant on some players whose values, beyond winning, are skewed.

Santa has become the latest symbol of the ineluctable creep of American popular culture and commerce around the world.

The case has become the latest symbol of Mexico's crippled criminal justice system, which Mr. Del Villar was appointed by Mexico City's new Mayor to fix.

By then, Wall Street had become the latest symbol of success for Chinese students in America.

The unwanted bonds have become the latest symbol of Japan's economic weakness.

He just bought a sprawling condominium at the Trump World Tower, the latest symbol of establishment New York.

The case has quickly become the latest symbol in Washington of incompetence and waste by the trust corporation.

In certain places frees were decried as the latest symbols of human greed and villainy against nature.

Over nine months later, that hope has barely been realised, the latest symbol of failure being an outbreak of cholera which is threatening the capital, Port-au-Prince.