Word: signal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Treaty backers found some small hope in Haig's vague statement. They were even more cheered by an unexpectedly early signal from Senator Sam Nunn. The Georgia Democrat announced that he would vote for SALT II if annual defense spending were boosted about 5% (after inflation) for the next five years. Said he: "In the absence of such a commitment, the SALT II treaty will become nothing more than an instrument for registering emerging Soviet military superiority...
...many of the state's educators, the Carey decision was a victory for student and parent groups backed by Ralph Nader, who has encouraged "truth in testing" campaigns in California, Colorado, Texas, Ohio and Massachusetts, as well as New York. Carey's move gave Nader his first signal victory, and last week Nader called the decision a "turning point in the national campaign to subject the testing industry to public scrutiny," adding, "ETS has been judging the worth of students for years. Now the students are getting a chance to judge the worth of ETS." The legislation also...
...studies of Monell Primatologist Gisela Epple. She found that the dominant male and dominant female in each social group spend much of their time smearing their scent around the cages. Surprisingly, subdominant females do not get pregnant when they mate with the top male. Epple suspects that a scent signal from the dominant female suppresses the fertility of her rivals...
...outrageous." Fumed Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, an expert on the Constitution: "There will be no need to gag the press if the stories can be choked off at the source." Said Allen Neuharth, chairman of the Gannett newspaper chain that brought the suit: "This decision is a signal that those judges who share the philosophy of secret trials can now run Star Chamber justice...
...system. In Dayton and Columbus, that meant busing for some 55,000 students. Coming on the heels of the Weber decision in June, which held that employers could give job preference to blacks to remedy "manifest racial imbalance" in the work force, the busing cases signal the court's strong support for affirmative action. For blacks, at least, the message is clear. Says Georgetown University Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "With the Warren Court you could say, 'Blacks win.' Now you can begin to say of the Burger Court, 'Blacks...