Word: signal
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...average yearly pay of a plumber is about $19,700; for a government clerk it's approximately $15,500. The best-educated and most selfless teachers are highly critical and deeply concerned about the decline in teaching standards and educational procedures. Their frustration is perhaps the strongest warning signal...
Finally, bringing back the draft would signal to the world that the U.S. is ready to do what is necessary to maintain its military might (see ESSAY). This was a point implicitly made by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt after visiting the U.S. in March. Said he: "There's a difference between a country that has a military service obligation . . . and a country which has abolished the draft...
...people gathered for a peaceful rally in the main square of the provincial capital of Kwangju last week, two gleaming South Korean air force jets arced across the city, made several passes over the demonstrators, then disappeared. The reconnaissance flyover was the first signal that South Korea's military was preparing to break the rebel seizure of Kwangju. For nine days the city had been under the control of some 200 dissident students who had led a full-scale citizens' insurrection, seizing all government buildings and most police stations. For nine days, several thousand troops that had been...
...Duvalier's marriage to Michèle-a divorcee whose former father-in-law once tried to overthrow Baby Doc's late father, "Papa Doc" Duvalier-signal a possible new moderation? Probably not. The real significance seemed to be the consolidation of Baby Doc's power within the family fiefdom, in which his mother, Simone, for instance, still holds the title of First Lady of the Republic. In this dynastic system, a princely heir will help ensure perpetual rule...
David Sullivan's electoral triumph may signal that the city's tenants are finally ready to join the Cambridge political mainstream. Many of those who supported the young lawyer also voted for CCA candidates; if that allegiance holds, they could dramatically shift the city's balance of power...