Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shape of a compromise began to emerge last week as the Administration exchanged hints with the other players. An important signal came when Rostenkowski remarked on television that he could see the possibility of a two-year tax package. Another came later in the week, when Dole announced that the President's tax bill lacked support on the Finance Committee. It was a warning to the White House not to take the Senate for granted...
...squabbling between Haig and the President's top aides, the Secretary had stopped trying to assert his prerogatives and had started pledging to be a team player. Reagan's enthusiastic welcome home, accompanied by a pointedly symbolic "photo opportunity" of the two men posing, was the clearest signal yet that Haig's new-found deference has probably saved...
...identification card altogether. Some opponents fear that any sort of ID would be not only a nightmare to administer but, more important, too totalitarian for most Americans to tolerate. Simpson, for one, remains undaunted. Says he: "If there is nothing else I get done I intend to send a signal to the world that you have to have some kind of identification before you work here. Right now we are the patsies of the earth...
...time, the way television focused the style of the late '50s. Says Detroit Psychologist Gail Parker: "The growth of these things is another result of the 'me society.' These machines are very selfish. When someone is involved in loud music, they're sending out a signal to the rest of the world to be left alone." Pinstriped Businessman Wade Schilders, 24, listening to Dvorak in midtown Manhattan, hits his "hot line" (allowing intrusion by real-world noise) to disagree: "Some people say the gadgets are isolating. But another person with phones comes up and plugs into...
...just now starting to come back down to earth a little bit," said Brian Buckley, the only signal-caller picked by the Pats in last month's NFL draft, and a "real prospect," according to coach Ron Erhardt...