Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pforzheimer University Professor SidneyVerba '53, an expert on American politicaldemocracy, agreed. "The elections send a veryimportant signal, I suppose, about the openness ofelectoral politics," he said...
Other candidates says they see the Webster decision as a signal that the fight for reproductive rights would be thrown back to the states. These candidates say that this means all elected officials in all areas of government should take a stand on the abortion issue...
...radar has a serious drawback: its signal is a blazing electronic beacon that can make the transmitter as much the hunted as the hunter. "Like a flashlight in a dark forest, radar can spotlight certain trees," says Theodore Postol, an electronics expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "But everybody in the woods...
...survival produced unaccustomed cooperation and civility. On the night of the quake, there were only 25 arrests for vandalism in San Francisco, down from the usual 100 or so, though such arrests were a low police priority that evening. Countless residents grabbed flashlights to direct traffic at intersections where signal lights had stopped. In the seedy Mission district of San Francisco, a woman carrying two flashlights, precious as gold under the circumstances, overheard two men discuss stealing one. In a rare spirit of camaraderie, they refrained...
...works by suppressing the proliferation of certain white blood cells, the workhorses of the immune system. Starzl thinks the drug could signal a revolution in organ transplantation. Moreover, it could possibly lead to a treatment for diseases, like arthritis, that are caused by an overactive immune system...