Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choice of personalities for Cabinet portfolios, specifically the Defense Ministry, may signal Shamir's intent. Vying for the post are two hard-line former holders of the post: Sharon, 60, who has criticized his own party for failing to take a tougher stand toward the Palestinians, and Moshe Arens, 62, a former Ambassador...
...enforcement." While Customs has turned a blind eye, Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. have shipped up to $200 million a year in currency and goods to their homeland. "People assumed that it was O.K.," says Mai Cong, president of the Vietnamese Community Center of Orange County. Now the signal from Customs seems to be that toleration has its limits...
...America's sexiest woman of letters, Vanna White. Now Wheel of Fortune has inspired the genre's most futuristic home game. A new device from Mattel enables viewers to play along with the nightly syndicated show. The unit, when aimed at the TV set, picks up an encoded signal that activates a miniature computer. For each word puzzle, the player can "spin" a wheel to accumulate prize money, choose letters and try to guess the hidden phrase. The TV players' guesses also show up automatically on the home unit...
...install the equipment, but severe problems arose in combining the different elements, which had not been preassembled before shipment as the contract specified. Special tools had to be sent from China. The English translation of the instructions supplied by the manufacturer was often puzzling. A sample sentence: "Starting direction signal is sent out in electric part, enabling main servomotor open, increasing speed of generating unit and reach to steady speed under no load under the function of auto adjusting speed." Deciphering such instructions and reconciling the various pieces of equipment caused a delay of one year, during which interest payments...
...first played at Woodstock--in three movements, and each was completed in four minutes," Cage says. "The performer closed the piano at the beginning of each movement and after the proper amount of time had gone by, opened it to signal the end of the part...