Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inventories and cutting back on orders from suppliers. In the process, layoffs surge throughout industry, and inventories grow skimpy. Then, when sales-hungry businessmen detect the first signs of an improving economy, they begin to rehire workers and restock warehouses. The level of inventories, thus, is usually a telltale signal of a recession or recovery...
...State Department's eight-point proposal for discussion with Managua marked, it seemed a milestone, a signal that the U.S. realized what others had noticed long ago--that 15 months of diatribes and threats had, if anything, turned our fears about a Soviet-Nicaraguan alliance into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Cut off from all Western aid. Nicaragua had been forced to look East for badly needed international recognition and foreign exchange Under the new State Department plan, the U.S. agreed to end efforts to weaken the Sandinista government, promised to oppose any Bay-of-Pigs-like invasion of angry exiles...
...informal Rose Garden press conference, the President seemed to signal that such a deal was not out of bounds by refusing to rule out a surtax on high income earners. He even appeared to support the efforts being made by a team of congressional budget leaders from both parties who have been meeting with Jim Baker. Later in the week Reagan sounded still more conciliatory, telling a group of editors, "We must join together to bring down deficits, bring down interest rates and revive the economy." The talks exploring a compromise were reaching "a climactic stage," he said, adding...
...voting, on the university's main green Students, faculty, and one Rhode Island State legislator addressed a crowd of about 400. University President Howard Swearer made a surprise appearance to speak in favor of the referendum's proposal Swearer said he hoped "this widespread public movement would signal our elected representatives about the need for nuclear arms control...
...Foreign policy experts believe that the leadership decline in Moscow may put the Soviets in a holding pattern as they sort out who is going to be in charge. That could be to our advantage. While fearing the volatility of the Falkland crisis, men like Henry Kissinger our a signal to the rest of the world from Britain that there is a "limit to our endurance of defeatism." The Pentagon assessment is that the British can wipe out the Argentine fleet. The diplomatic assessment is that we had better stop every thing before that happens or all parties lose, especially...