Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coincidence, the revenue target for the first year was $30 billion, roughly the amount that will be lost to the Treasury because of the 10% tax cut scheduled to go into effect July 1. It was a clear signal to the President that his sacrosanct tax reduction is in danger of being repealed...
...night's address was Bok's second public statement on a national issue in a week. In his annual report to the Board of Overseers, released last Thursday, he lashed out against the U.S. legal system. Bok, in an interview, said however that these were coincidents and did not signal any new outspokenness on his part...
...sessions with Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. Among other things, Kohl stressed that the upcoming summit should deal with more global issues, such as high international interest rates and the dangers of protectionism. Said Kohl: "Williamsburg can be both a realistic summit and a signal of optimism to the world...
Although the study claims that viewers are becoming more sophisticated and discriminating, it also suggests that people are indifferent to whether their TV signal comes from cable, over-the-air broadcast or microwave. They just want to be informed and entertained, thank you, and damn the technology. As far as technical innovations are concerned, most people surveyed wanted high-definition TV signals, which will simply enable them to see more clearly the shows they do not like watching anyway. The brave new world of convenience offered by electronic newspapers, home banking and shopping via TV does not thrill them...
...science). In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense. Recently at the start of a paragraph I wrote, "Then occurred the intervention which irretrievably bent the twig of events." It was intended as a kind of signal to the reader. (Every now and then in a historical narrative, after one has been explaining a rather complicated background, one feels the need of waving a small red flag that says, "Wake up, Reader; something is going to happen.") Unhappily, after finishing the paragraph, I was forced to admit that...