Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must be installed in the Science Center. I suggest that a uniformed guard be posted within the Center throughout the day, in addition to the evening elevator guard. This uniformed guard could be summoned by a set of buttons positioned along the hallways and in the rooms, which would signal the guard as to the victim's whereabouts...
...that cholesterol collected in the HDL particle is transferred to a VLDL ferryboat circulating in the bloodstream; the VLDL then metamorphoses into an LDL, which is picked up by an LDL receptor in the liver. Others think HDL may in fact be a passive player -- a sort of biological signal light that indicates how efficiently excess cholesterol is being removed, without necessarily taking any direct role...
Baker and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady nonetheless wanted Bush to name a top deputy whose management skills would signal that the new Administration & is serious about budget cutting. Not many candidates wanted to play second fiddle. Norman Augustine, chief executive officer of Martin Marietta, and Paul O'Neill, CEO of Alcoa, turned down the deputy's job. Republican Senator Pete Wilson of California began whooping it up for Rand Corp. president Donald Rice, whose many qualifications include the fact that he is a close friend and golfing partner of the most influential defense expert in Congress, Democrat Sam Nunn. Rice...
Competition from rivals MCI and Sprint hastened the move. Both companies can undercut AT&T's tolls on long-distance calls because their networks use fiber- optic cable almost exclusively. The light-wave lines, which transmit a signal faster than ordinary cables and produce clearer sound than satellite communications, form less than half of AT&T's telephone grid...
...change of signal came too late to prevent most of the session's 37 speakers from sniping at the Baltic state. While Estonian President Arnold Ruutel watched impassively from the dais, his republic was accused of "creating a hotbed of tensions." In his own presentation, Ruutel repeated demands that Estonians be allowed to decide what form of parliament they wanted. There should be no place in the new laws, said Ruutel, for "formalistic texts that do not take into account the specific differences and demands" of each region...