Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harriman and, says Lodge, "no one knows more about the issues than Phil-and no one can read between the lines the way he can." At the moment, there are not many lines to read. The failure to replace Lodge with a well-known figure would be a clear signal to Hanoi that Nixon's patience with the talks is running...
...durable goods, which had risen sharply in September, settled back again. The price picture is less clear. The consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 4.8% in October, compared with a 6% rate in September, but a one-month variation of that size is not enough to signal any turn. Economists find it at best a mildly encouraging sign that the rate of price increases is leveling off. Four prominent Manhattan clothing manufacturers joined last week in a startling call for federal wage-price controls. Said Lawrence S. Phillips, president of shirt-making Phillips-Van Heusen: "Unfortunately...
...ovum travels singly, like Lewis or Clark, in the kind of existential loneliness which Norman Mailer usually admires. One might say that the activity of ova involves a daring and independence absent, in fact, from the activity of spermatozoa, which move in jostling masses, swarming out on signal like a crowd of commuters from the 5:15." From this, one can only conclude that women must be the more daring, individualistic and imaginative...
During pre-season practice this year, MacBean, a senior who played tailback in the old single-wing, beat out letterman Arnie Holtberg and sophomore Rod Plummer for the job, and soon established himself as one of the Ivy League's sharpest signal-callers...
Plainly, the speech signaled a lower profile for the U.S. south of the border and a determination to require Latin American nations to assume from this point on a more active role in guiding their own development. Did it also signal a U.S. desire to disengage? Said a high Administration spokesman: "the answer is no-not disengagement, but re-engagement." Nor would the new policy imply economic isolation, he added. "What it does mean is that we would like to dispel the myth that the U.S. is the instant messiah for miracles." The question remains whether Nixon's proposed...