Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes after a chilly dawn at Pretoria's Central Prison, five men stepped up to five gallows, accompanied only by a hangman, a physician and a prison official. At a signal from the official, the hangman pulled a single lever, springing five trapdoors. Church bells tolled in the black ghetto of Soweto 40 miles away, while cries of anguish and indignation reverberated around the world...
...Soviets are ready to bargain in good faith is the great unknown. Their warmer rhetoric may be nothing more than propaganda. But it is conceivable that Andropov is setting the stage for a more flexible negotiating position before the U.S. deploys its Pershing II and cruise missiles. "The signal they are sending is that they want to improve a bad relationship," commented a source at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. "But it doesn't mean they are willing to change their policies. We'll have to wait...
...signal political success for bilingualism has been won at the U.S. Department of Education. After the Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that Chinese-speaking students were entitled to some instruction in a language they could understand, the DOE issued "informal" rules that now bind more than 400 school districts. Immersion in English, even rapid transition to English, does not satisfy the DOE; the rules compel school systems to offer a full curriculum to any group of 20 or more students who share a foreign language. The DOE rules have survived three presidencies, although Jesse Soriano, director of the Reagan Administration...
...perfect prissiness as Winthorpe, or from Bellamy and Ameche, having the time of their sunset years playing the Dukes, to say this. But Murphy, using his Tyrone Green character from Saturday Night Live as a sketch for a full-scale portrait, demonstrates the powers of invention that signal the arrival of a major comic actor, and possibly a great star. He makes Trading Places something more than a good-hearted comedy. He turns it into an event...
...heresy and unholy lust among some of the monks, quickly becomes lethal as other mysterious deaths take place-a total of seven bloody deeds. William speculates that the killer may be inspired by the Book of Revelation, where it is prophesied that a series of seven trumpet calls will signal death and destruction before the Apocalypse...