Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular point, the referee raised his arm to signal a penalty against the Crimson, and the RPI forwards--even as their goalie rushed to the bench to be replaced by an extra skater--dumped the puck into the Harvard zone and skated off for a line change, without even trying to convert the extra-man situation...
...Solarz said he felt it was important to act quickly to send a signal to the Philippines that "we will not countenance a stolen election...
Leaders of the People's Republic of China obviously knew something was up when Henry Kissinger sought to arrange his now famous secret mission to Peking in 1971. That signal, however, was not their first clue that the U.S. was interested in improving relations with a Communist regime it had refused to recognize for more than two decades. Larry Wu-Tai Chin, 63, a retired CIA analyst on trial as a spy for China, last week testified that in 1970 he had passed to Peking a document containing a secret message from Richard Nixon to Congress outlining his intention...
...Brooklyn black ghetto, Robertson ( eventually landed in Virginia's Tidewater with $70 in cash, an aged De Soto, and a vision of "claiming" a defunct UHF station for Jesus. The price (divinely ordained, as Robertson saw it): $37,000. WYAH went on the air in 1961 with a weak signal, one camera, and a movie projector that frequently jammed. But America's first Christian TV station was afloat, to be followed by others in Atlanta, Dallas and Boston. After overcoming struggles that Robertson attributed to "satanic oppression," the operation developed money- raising telethons and friendly talk shows...
...computer system. He was sentenced to five days in jail, fined $2,000, placed on four years' probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service. He also resigned. Thus Brown lost a $73,000-a-year job to save some $400 worth of insurance premiums, a clear signal that, at least for him, computer crime does...