Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experts readily obliged. They told Newsom that Khomeini's omission was a deliberate signal--not an accident, as some Iranian politicians had claimed--and recommended that the U.S. give a quick and positive reply before hardliners added any new conditions...
...consider Bob Conroy, Boston native and current quarterback for the Lions, a talented signal-caller who will lead Columbia today in the season opener at Harvard Stadium (1:30 p.m.). He will probably lose today, as is the rule with Columbia quarterbacks. The New Yorkers have a new head coach, Bob Naso, 21 years an assistant at Rutgers, a new offense and a new defense. However, they also have the tradition, the legacy of losers that shows no sign of abating...
...Busy Signal...
...right. But joke or no joke, how can anyone dissociate him/herself from the all-too-real pain? How can anyone with the slightest parental urge--or human decency--laugh at a delivery that ends in bloody death? And, given that laughter is a complex entity and could signal distress as well as pleasure, why was the reaction to the movie overwhelmingly, ecstatically favorable...
...ball into the air, it has upward momentum," he explains. "Before the ball drops, the upward momentum drops sharply. The ball is still rising, but the upward momentum is falling. You know that it will reach its top soon. In the same way, when the majority of my indicators signal a new bottom or top, I know to flash the buy or sell signal...