Word: signal
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Most firms interested in Hughes have refused to identify themselves. Ford Chairman Donald Petersen declines to say if his company was among the bidders, and GM Chairman Roger Smith has been just as reticent. Two companies, Allied and Signal, had been expected to bid but changed their minds and decided to merge instead...
Nicaragua's Sandinista government may have been trying to send an important signal to someone last week. The question was, to whom, and what did it mean? In carefully worded conversations, some officials in Managua, the capital, let it be known that they were considering the temporary suspension of the country's 15-month-old military draft. The move, coming only a week after imposition of a U.S. trade embargo against Nicaragua, was interpreted by some as a potential peace offering from the Sandinistas to a hostile Reagan Administration. Others preferred to see it as a propaganda ploy, aimed...
Lisa's demise may signal further hard times for the Cupertino, Calif.-based company. Layoffs will inevitably result from the production halt. In anticipation of a period of slower growth, Apple last week also announced plans to reduce its advertising budget...
...mention this? In order to signal that there has been a change of / generations in our country. Two-thirds of our people did not experience May 1945 and this has to have consequences. Even as a young boy, I heard and saw horrible things. As was customary at the time, I was in one of those groups that put out fires after bombing raids. I can still show you the house where at the age of 13 I had to dig bodies out from under the rubble. The house has been rebuilt, but I still think of that day whenever...
...Also receiving red hats were two U.S. prelates whose outlooks seem cut from papal cloth: Boston's Bernard F. Law and New York City's John J. O'Connor, 65, who acknowledged the news by noting, "The Holy Father is anxious that all bishops practice his teaching." Another apparent signal of the Pope's conservative views came when perhaps the most famous Roman Catholic woman in the U.S. suddenly became a Vatican unperson. Former Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Geraldine Ferraro, 49, who had some celebrated clashes with O'Connor over the abortion issue last year, had a ten- minute private...