Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advancement of life-saving technology, and artificial blood will save lives. Fluosol molecules are smaller than those of blood and could more easily penetrate clots in heart attack victims. For members of religions preventing blood transfusions such as Jehovah's Witnesses, a loss of blood may no longer signal death as Fluosol is not really blood...
Jackson worked his way through the crowd and into a campaign headquarters ("outreach center," in his terminology), and campaign workers arranged the scene for his speech. An aide pointed to the spot where the candidate would stand and shouted, "Rainbow, rainbow!" It was a signal to another assistant to plunge into the predominantly black throng and look for whites who could be brought up front to stand near Jackson, so that photographs would show the preacher as leader of a multiracial rainbow coalition...
What doomed the pneu and the postal service, of course, was the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell's new invention seemed so much faster, and consequently so much better. This was before the busy signal was invented, or statements like "He's in conference right now. May I have him call you back...
...year, or maybe it has just got worse since then. Have you noticed how much longer it takes between the time you finish dialing and the time the first ring comes? Or how often you dial and there's no ring at all? Or you get a busy signal when you know the line isn't busy? Or that the phones themselves, which never used to break down, now break down? And nobody will fix them, unless you dismantle them and send them-by mail!-to some repair shop in West Nowhere. And the prices keep going...
...After trying the same thing in other stores, the group returns, begins pricing again, then employs another group member to signal that 'the bus is leaving,' forcing the sale...