Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refusal to allow a student activist to attend its meeting with the Undergraduate Council today is hardly surprising. After all, Harvard's governing body has consistently rejected demands for a public forum where its seven members would have to answer student questions. However, this action sends a troubling signal to all those who have pushed for the Corporation to hold an open meeting and also open up Harvard's governance...
...admiral's proposal to spend nearly $2 billion a year in federal, state and local funds to beef up the war on drugs is the strongest signal yet that the commission believes the IV drug problem, if left unchecked, could result in the spread of the AIDS virus to the heterosexual population. Equally important, Watkins has shrewdly sized up the role the country's health- delivery system must play in combatting the devastation already caused by AIDS -- and found it badly wanting. The chairman's recommendations, which are expected to be approved by the full commission this week before going...
...hypothalamus normally sends out a [hormone] signal that puts the reproductive system on 'go,'" Frisch says. If body weight is too low, the brain will not send any hormonal signals to the reproductive organs, and menstruation will not occur, she says. Once exercise is cut back and weight is regained, the menstrual cycle and ovulation will be restored, and pregnancy will be possible. "The situation is not irreversible," she says...
...looked up sharply and asked if the teller was addressing him. When the teller replied yes, the man straightened himself, raised his finger and proceeded to lecture the teller on the proper usage of the signal lights, how the bank had spent a great deal of money to install them, how they were there to notify customers when windows opened, preventing confusion which in turn prevented chaos, and there was a system, and that...
...gratified that Harvard declares its expectation that undergraduates demonstrate or reach a level of competence in quantitative reasoning. This sends an important signal to the rest of the academic world. Unfortunately, however, the current quantitative reasoning test offers no guarantee that the students have a meaningful level of manipulative skills, much less an understanding of quantitative and logical reasoning and the essence of mathematics as a discipline. The omission of mathematics itself from the Core, strange though this may appear, need not be fatal if some other adequate provision is made for students outside of the sciences to acquire mathematics...