Word: signal
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...answer is simple. Religion is for many a matter of the deepest importance. And when governmental actions signal a laxity toward, or even disregard of, the plurality of religious beliefs, the time has come to stop them...
...Standard Oil of Indiana) control only about 29% of the market. By comparison, the four top companies in the typical manufacturing industry control an average of 40%. Says a top Federal Trade Commission official: "We could conceivably stop the merger, but it would take the clearest sort of signal from Congress before it would happen...
...decline, confined thus far mostly to the Eastern states, is puzzling scientists from Maine to Alabama. The mysterious selective blight may merely signal shifts in local ecological balances. Or, say the scientists, it may be the start of a trend toward devastation that could eventually engulf the entire Eastern green range. Their worry is not unfounded. An apparently similar malady has ravaged 34% of West Germany's wooded lands, causing an annual $509 million in damages to timber and related industries. So far, the U.S. decline has been measured mostly in aesthetic and recreational losses. But it is beginning...
...Assault on Truth raises important questions about the origins of psychoanalysis and the rationale for Freud's emphasis on fantasy life, but it may not--as Masson predicts--signal the imminent demise of Freudian psychoanalysis. He clearly distorts much of Freud's later work in order to bring out a contrast with his earlier theories. Freud never excluded real experiences from the realm of psychoanalysis, as Masson contends, but rather came to recognize the importance of fantasy and of personal distortions of actual occurrences in shaping human recollections. General Freudian dian orthodoxy involves a mixture of the two "realities...
...Anyone but Reagan" has been the Democratic rallying cry this year and, no doubt, when the general election takes place in November, most Democrats will ink in that anybody. But tomorrow's election is a Democratic primary--a time for Democratic voters to signal not only which candidate they prefer, but also what direction they believe the party should take. More than any other Democratic contender, McGovern represents the principled and humane outlook that has typically distinguished the Democratic Party from the Republicans in general, and Ronald Reagan in particular...