Word: signal
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...SENSE, the new proposals, adopted by the NCAA, mild as they are, signal a new day for college athletics. Yet, in another sense, these reforms are a sad commentary on a tarnished system for being to obvious and so late in coming. They were so obvious to President Bok that he didn't even bother going, sending Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 and Director of Athletics John P. Reardon '60 to act as "yes-men" for all the proposed changes...
However, the closure of voting booths certainly does not signal the end of questions pertaining to Zimbabwe's future. Some wonder what the effect of the Prime Minister's promise of a one-party state will have on white and other minority political parties. Others question what Mugabe means when saying his victory represents a mandate for instituting "socialism...
...right wing might have had something to do with the crash. Although hopes had been slim that the two flight recorders could be found at an estimated depth of 6,000 ft., at week's end sonar scanners aboard a British seabed operations vessel, H.M.S. Challenger, detected a firm signal that Irish authorities identified as the recorders' "homing blip...
Unfortunately, for those who prefer an anxious Talking Heads, the music does not live up to the cover's signal and the mellowness takes precedent in Little Creatures. Most of the lyrics and melodies lack the unpredictability of the earlier Heads. Images of David Byrne bursting with tension and racing on cocaine won't flash through your mind on this one. This is relaxing music and sounds most like stuff you dry the dishes...
Short of a bomb, indeed, experts were hard put to explain the disaster. Even if the pilot had lost all four engines simultaneously, aviation sources pointed out, he could have sent a distress signal and possibly continued to glide for 30 minutes. And even if his power source had been cut, he could have used a backup system. In addition, officials observed, sudden disappearances from radar and crashes at sea are very rare. Never before has a commercial jet crossing the Atlantic plunged into the ocean...