Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Movement), an all-white neofascist movement led by Eugene Terre Blanche that advocates total racial separation, will not field candidates in the election. "If the Nationalist government comes back into power," predicted an antigovernment campaigner at a multiracial Cape Town rally this month, "we will take this as a signal that you have rejected our path of peaceful protest." He warned of violence "on a scale never seen before...
...higher education officials think that the Tax Reform Act was neither a defeat for institutions of higher learning nor a signal of a new Congressional sentiment that colleges and universities ought to be treated as another special interest...
...voting begins in this year's Board of Overseers election, a number of candidates, overseers and divestment activists said that issue-oriented statements in the official voter packet signal increasing politicization of the election...
...State Henry Kissinger liked to tell the one about a visit to Moscow when he was a bachelor. The KGB big shot assigned to his tour kept talking out of the side of his mouth about all the lovely girls he could make available to Kissinger at the slightest signal. Kissinger declined each of the three invitations, but he was tempted to say, "Look, send one around, get your pictures and then leave me alone." After that Kissinger carried a "blabber tape" with him whenever he headed for the Kremlin. The trouble with the tape, which was a jumble...
...slap at Tokyo was also a powerful diplomatic message. For the first time, longstanding American grievances over the trade practices of its second largest trading partner (after Canada) had resulted in a sharp and pointed U.S. economic response. Said a senior Administration official: "This will hopefully send a signal to all our trading partners that the free ride is over." As Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige put it to TIME, "You can't rely on words. You have to rely on actions...