Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Symphony Sid, was a disc jockey for a small dawn-to-dusk radio station in Roxbury or some such place. Its signal was so weal that even in ?Cambridge it cam in as quavering and erratic as a BBC message from Winston Churchill to the French Resistance. But I strained for the sound because for fifteen minutes every day just before signoff time, Symphony Sid broadcast a kind of music I had never heard before and was not to hear anywhere else for some time. Years before Elvis Presley tumbled America into moral crisis by appearing on the Ed Sullivan...
...Suransky, a Michigan lecturer who sent the telegram, said in an interview yesterday that if Harvard were to divest, it "would send a signal throughout the entire university system...
Kirkpatrick says we cannot take the old route. The issue is now of "capital importance" to this country. She does note a grudging but significant change in the debate that could signal some deeper sensitivity and a realization of the importance of Latin America. Only a few months ago, she says, few people were talking about another Marxist state in the Caribbean or the extension of Soviet bases and even missiles into the area. Now nobody really dismisses those possibilities...
...Amin Gemayel, who visited the still smoldering embassy two hours after the attack, echoed that resolve. Said he: "Those responsible for this crime have united in death innocent Lebanese and Americans and strengthened the determination of our two countries to continue to work together." As if to send a signal to the bombers, U.S. Negotiator Morris Draper met with Lebanese and Israeli officials the day after the tragedy to continue negotiations on the pullout of foreign troops from Lebanon. Three days later, Reagan announced that he was sending Secretary of State George Shultz to the region this week. His stated...
Current research has focused on the use of tools by animals as a signal of intelligence. Chimpanzees, for example, get at termites by jabbing their nests with twigs. The assassin bug of South America, also a termite fancier, approaches its prey by gluing nest material on its back to serve as camouflage. But, says Beck, the bug's behavior is probably "innate or genetically prewired." Another scientific index is the ability of animals to transmit information through so-called language behavior. Bees, foraging for pollen, return to the hive and perform an intricate figure-eight dance...