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Word: signal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though, U.S. Justice officials have refused to consider dropping the charges against Noriega. A dismissal would require Ronald Reagan's signature, and the Administration is afraid of sending the wrong signal just as its antidrug campaign is developing fresh momentum. The Government continued to crack down on drug traffickers last week, when a federal grand jury in Miami indicted Colonel Jean-Claude Paul, the powerful commander of Haiti's largest military garrison. The indictment charged Paul with allowing cocaine smugglers to use an airstrip on his farm to fly drugs to the U.S. He is unlikely to be brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama The Big Squeeze | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...reach you guys way out there in your spaceship, but I really miss you. You're still the only other beings from Melmac who I know survived when the planet blew up. A lot of amazing things have happened to your old buddy Gordo since you last heard my signal, soon after I crash-landed through the Tanner family's garage roof and decided to stay here in sunny California. There are drawbacks: this place earth is so outsville you can't buy a whisker omelet or a tabby-paw pie. Here, when people stroke cats, they aren't even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stranger in A Strange Land | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...runaway car struck a pedestrian, a motor scooter and a traffic signal yesterday afternoon at the corner of Mt. Auburn and JFK Street when the driver apparently fell asleep. No serious injuries were reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Car Hits Pedestrian, Scooter on Mt. Auburn | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

...also destroyed a blue Java motor scooter and knocked a traffic signal post several feet down the sidewalk. The Chevy continued into the Crimson Travel building, leaving paint chips on the building wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Car Hits Pedestrian, Scooter on Mt. Auburn | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

...from the nearest competitor. Metro officials will readvertise the contract, and expect to award it within two months. With an eye on current U.S.-Japanese negotiations over the construction issue, Republican Senator Frank Murkowski of Alaska, co- author of the amendment, said, "I cannot imagine a better signal to send to the Japanese." And to American taxpayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protectionism: Japanese Need Not Apply | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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