Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rise of gay and lesbian studies centers at Yale University and the City University of New York and the gathering of the first academic conference on homosexual issues, held last weekend in New Haven, signal a new era for homosexual scholarship, university activists at both schools said this week...
Although it seems improbable that the junior signal-caller will reach this goal this season, Yohe may break loose against Harvard's final three opponents, Holy Cross, Penn, and Yale...
...Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences intended to signal its disapproval of the Reagan Administration's economic programs, it could not have picked a better week to do so, or a better man to deliver the message. Robert Solow, 63, who last week won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, is a liberal academic who has never hidden his disdain for Reaganomics. And when the Brooklyn-born professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stepped before the cameras to acknowledge his award, he needed little prompting to lay into the policies that led to last week's crash...
...automatic spending cuts go into effect under a modified version of the Gramm-Rudman Act. They would slash away with idiot impartiality at defense and social spending, at good programs and bad. And that would just about end any chance that Washington would give the stock markets the signal they yearn...
What if the negotiations break down and the market gets the opposite signal: that the U.S. is unable or unwilling even to start working out some long-range solution to its gargantuan budget and trade deficits? As last week's wild price whipsawing demonstrated, no one can predict stock prices and volume for even a few hours. But if the U.S. continues to float on a sea of red ink and foreign debt -- well then, many financial experts suggest, sooner or later the markets can expect the real crash. How it could be much worse than Black Monday...