Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flame came fluttering out of the darkness, into an early morning light. Americans in bathrobes would sometimes stand by the sides of the two-lane roads, and as a runner carried the Olympic torch toward them, they would signal thumbs up and break the country silence with a soft, startling cheer. Their faces would glow with a complex light--a patriotism both palpable and chastened, a kind of reawakened warmth, something fetched from a long way back...
...closest friend on Capitol Hill, warned the President once again that the proposed savings would be insufficient. Reagan replied that since arms-control negotiations with the Soviets may be about to resume, this would be a most inappropriate time to send Moscow anything it might interpret as a signal of U.S. softness. Weinberger made essentially the same point in public the next day. Said he: "You can't decide what you're going to have to spend for defense without looking outside the United States." The military forces, he added, still have "a long...
Nevertheless, the veil of secrecy was quickly and predictably pierced. Two days after the Pentagon's strictures against speculation, the Washington Post reported that Mission 51-C will launch a military-intelligence satellite called a SIGINT (for "signal intelligence"), which can intercept electronic signals. With the information now in the public domain, A.P. promptly ran with its similar story and NBC aired a watered-down version...
...pairs, and narratively the least important of them. But it is in their almost haughty indifference to the mundane and reasonable that the story's meaning is vested. And it is in them that Lean's art reaches its subtlest heights. They scarcely exchange a word, but they silently signal to each other from cut to cut, across vales of karma, achieving a communion that none of the other characters, for all their talk, ever do. In a way, they could be said to resonate to each other, echo each other...
...mean that the VCR will automatically receive cable programs, only that it may not need an extra cable box or a complicated switching system once cable has been installed. Actually, this feature will eventually become a thing of the past. As more and more basic-cable operators scramble their signal to prevent video piracy, virtually all VCRS will require a decoding box. To clear up consumer confusion, the National Cable Television Association recommends that those contemplating the purchase of cable-capable equipment consult their local cable company...