Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rogan's replacement, however, quarterback Joe Dufek could make Yale partisans forget last year's second-team. All-Ivy signal-caller. Rogan stayed in the New York Jets' camp until the final round of cuts, but Dufek constantly pressured him for the Elis' starting job last season...
...Which signal turns out to be the true one will pose a crucial test for Reaganomics, the theory espoused by President Reagan that a combination of deep cuts in taxes and federal spending, tight control of the money supply and a general lessening of Government intervention in the economy will eventually lead to healthy, noninflationary economic growth. By last summer, the President had put most of his program through Congress, and just about then the slump started. But the policy has yet to achieve the promised payoff...
...Spray. Last week 16 sailors from eight countries (five Americans, three Britishers, three Frenchmen, a New Zealander, an Australian, a Japanese, a South African and a Czech) followed the great Yankee skipper's advice. As a gunshot cracked across Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay to signal the start, each sailor turned his stern on the plush attractions of old Newport, his bow toward the starting line off Goat Island and the wild Atlantic, and his thoughts to the challenge upon which he was embarking. Then each crossed the starting line and began a 27,000-mile competitive voyage...
...Somewhere That's Green, in which she dreams of a home with every consumer cliche the '50s could offer, and in her second-act duet with Wilkof, she proves that Ellen Greene, not Audrey II, is the wildest force of nature on the Orpheum stage. With her signal help, Little Shop answers the question: Can trash material be transformed into a funny, classy night at the theater? This trash...
...support of a balanced-budget constitutional amendment. In St. Louis his backdrop is grinning black children. Last week Reagan tried waging diplomacy by camera. White House spokesmen pointedly referred newsmen to how unsmiling the President was in greeting Israel's Foreign Minister Shamir. If this was meant to signal a new kind of diplomatic rebuff, it didn't overwhelm the Israelis, who went on bombing Beirut...