Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morale among the Solidarity detainees who are still held in some 20 camps is said to be high. In some detention centers, guards on patrol at the perimeter of the camps even signal their support for prisoners within by flashing the V-for-victory sign. The authorities have shifted Solidarity Chief Lech Walesa from the villa outside Warsaw where he had been held under house arrest to a remote town in the southeast, an indication that the government may have given up efforts to negotiate an accommodation with the independent trade union movement...
...repair efforts underway this summer are the most extensive in Harvard history. The three major projects--renovations of Harvard Stadium, two Houses and Sever Hall--signal the end of a recent policy of deferred maintenance which had forced the University to forego all but the most dire repair jobs...
Israel hopes that routing Palestinian forces in Lebanon, mostly at the expense of Arab civilians, will signal the end of Palestinian nationalism [June 21]. Thoughtful Jews, reflecting upon their own often tragic history, surely must realize that humiliation and displacement only strengthen collective identity and the determination to express...
...from now. Administration hard-liners believe that no START is better than warmed-over SALT. They fear, in Rostow's words, that it would be "fatal to say we are trying to get an agreement before an election." The Soviets could be tempted to read that as a signal that they need only wait until American resolve in the negotiations cracks under domestic political pressure...
Several months ago, when one of Alexander Haig's periodic eruptions appeared to signal his imminent departure from office, George Shultz ran into an old friend from Nixon Administration days on a Washington street. "I think he's going to go," said the friend, Washington Lobbyist Charls Walker. "Who do you think they'll get?" asked Shultz. "You," answered Walker, with a laugh...