Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outbreaks of sicknesses could signal an end to an easy going relationship Harvard has had recently with city health officials...
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...away the store and got nothing in return," said a White House critic of the Administration's Middle East policies. At a State Department dinner for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, a few guests even joked about raising the Star of David flag over the White House to signal the "Israeli victory...
...sources. At best, reporters may subject themselves to manipulation by a person who passes on information for his own motives; at worst, readers suspect that the anonymous source may not exist. In some cases, reporters seem to feel that using a "deep throat" lends a touch of glamour-a signal that they are in the know. Relying on unnamed sources is often necessary. Most major publications, including TIME, get background information at official briefings or through interviews of behind-the-scenes participants. In such cases, the source justifiably insists on anonymity. "The alternative...
With their eye keenly on the upcoming West German vote, the Soviets were making a final attempt to strengthen antimissile sentiments in Western Europe. Late last week a West German government spokesman said there had been a new "signal" from the Soviets, to the effect that they would drop their longstanding insistence on counting independent British and French nuclear forces in any Geneva agreement. There was less to the signal than the West Germans thought. In private discussions with Nitze in Geneva, Kvitsinsky had tried to get the U.S. to make a missile offer of "equal reductions on both sides...