Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist official said he took the speech as a signal "that it's time for the old guys to retire...
Federal certification for a new breed of plane with swept- back wings and pusher propellers may signal big changes for aircraft design...
...weeks leading up to the millennial celebration, the government of Mikhail Gorbachev made an effort to signal its tolerance and even show some enthusiasm for Christianity. The General Secretary has, for instance, taken to lacing his speeches with references to the lives of Jesus Christ or John the Baptist. And in a remarkable pronouncement, the Soviet news agency TASS declared on June 4 that Russian Orthodoxy "expounds love and mercy and denounces idleness and money grubbing and inculcates in people high moral standards, which are needed in our socialist society...
...city concert tour of Dirty Dancing and the success of pube rockers like Tiffany signal the discovery of '60s sounds by '80s teens...
Iacocca's most startling disclosure is that last year he explored the possibility of a $40 billion takeover of beleaguered General Motors, which is four times Chrysler's size. As proposed by Edward Hennessy, chairman of the industrial conglomerate Allied-Signal, the takeover would have given Allied- Signal GM's auto-supply operations and Chrysler the rest. After talking it over with investment bankers and lawyers, Iacocca rejected the notion as too much of a reach. Said he: "I concluded that it might be easier to buy Greece...