Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone agrees that the stalled construction does not signal a public policy Armageddon, but several professors, especially those dealing with the merger of the MPP and the CRP, are worried about how the school will house the students and faculty from the new program. Laurence E. Lynn, professor of Public Policy and chairman of the faculty committee hammering out details of the merger, refuses to even speculate about what will happen should the building not be finished by 1983; "I wish the building existed now. For every month delay, the strain gets worse," he says...
Lefever's opponents believe the White House goofed in nominating him for the job. They are afraid that his confirmation would signal an official American indifference to human rights violations abroad, thus maybe even encouraging such offenses. Some committee members are troubled that Lefever's think tank accepted at least $25,000 from the Nestlé company after commissioning a study that turned out to support Nestlé's marketing of infant formula in developing countries (see following story). When Lefever told the committee he thought the human rights job offered only "an occasional opportunity to nudge...
...through diplomatic channels. At the outset of the crisis, Begin had darkly hinted that Secretary of State Alexander Haig's envoy had only a week to work his magic, or Israel would attack the missiles. Two days after the Cabinet meeting, in what seemed to be a reassuring signal to Syria's President Hafez Assad, Begin spoke before a gathering of war veterans and flatly declared that Israel would not be the first to use force. Said an Israeli diplomat: "I would say that the chance of war now is almost nothing...
...messages got through. Secretary Regan picked up Rostenkowski's hint and passed word, through Conable, to "tell Danny that I want to talk to him." Dole's signal was also received, and he was brought into the dialogue. These talks laid the basis for what may eventually be a Dole-Rostenkowski tax bill, which, noted one aide, would have the advantage of allowing everyone to take credit for "a statesman-like compromise" while removing the partisan Kemp-Roth label...
...such safety testing has always been a vexing one, and by the time it was discovered that thalidomide causes birth defects in monkeys and rabbits, many human casualties had already occurred. Last week researchers from Johns Hopkins University announced the development of a simple test that could both signal whether certain drugs might be harmful and indicate the animal species that should be used to check them...