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They started pointing to Conley's case in lectures, and writing about him in their books. He became their poster child.

Regrettably, although sublime in the eyes of some, the eel is not likely to be the poster child for a conservation movement anytime soon.

NEW YORK - No single youngster can be the poster child for America's foster care system, with its mix of happy endings and heartache.

Merely setting the stage for a $100 billion bailout by the U. S. government and becoming the poster child of the meltdown.

But President Tsakhia Elbegdorj brushes away concerns that Mongolia could end up the next poster child of the resource curse.

Solyndra, the poster child of the Law of Misguided Subsidies, borders on irrelevancy compared to the full impact of bad economic policy.

It is in effect a poster child for what insiders like to call the "multi-stakeholder" model.

"2010 AL30 may become a sort of 'poster child' for hiding asteroids, " says Alan Harris of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

The United States is the poster child for the ill effects of a country hopped up on easy credit.

Vietnam has been a poster-child of South-East Asian development over the past decade.

So you don't buy what she said about me being the poster child for the new honor code?

She was the poster child for muscular dystrophy.

NBA poster child Kobe Bryant should win his sixth championship and his third straight MVP award. Everything will go as planned, right?

Along with Flickr, Del. icio. us is a poster child of tagging, a simple feature whereby people attach words or phrases to an item.

Up to now, the polar bear has been the poster child for climate change.

Hampton House was, after all, practically the poster child for the "socially irresponsible" business.

Chile was a poster child for capital controls a few years ago.

Today, Google is the poster child, with its "20 percent time" projects.

America, long the poster child for efficient labour markets, suddenly looks sclerotic.

The poster child for this unusual approach was Summize, a search engine for online reviews and blog posts in which Betaworks invested.

Ethiopia understandably yearns to shed its reputation as the world's poster child for famine.

Gooding is widely regarded as the poster child for squandering Oscar opportunities.

Open and competitive markets made Britain the poster child for globalisation in the rich world.

The Chinese market, once the poster child of millionaire-spawning profits, is flat over the last 12 months.

Simplyput, 2007 was a difficult year for SWFs in general, and many viewed the CIC asthe poster child of what went wrong.

He was nothing if not a poster child for the Romantic Period.

In many ways, Google has become the poster-child for this new wave of inventiveness.

"We didn't want our son becoming the poster child for this, " Ms. Christie said, "but this is out of control. "

Vietnam's social and economic progress has made it the poster-child of multilateral institutions such as the World Bank.

With increased competition and less food, the polar bear has become the poster child for extinction threats caused by climate change.

Perhaps that is one reason for the debacle that has emerged at Union Pacific, the new poster child for merger problems.

Kenya was once Africa's poster child for stability and growth.

But for every poster child, there is a ton of failures.

Ten years ago the thought of Bill Clinton as a poster child for healthy living would have seemed absurd.

But the product in the blue box in the center is my poster child. Right.

The blue-collar manufacturing area has become the poster child of the president's stimulus plan and promises of recovery,

The poster child for last year's red-hot real estate market in Hong Kong is gone.

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