Word: signal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heat-of-the-moment indicators relay nuanced messages. "We're big on socks and ties on doorknobs," reveals Greg A. Feldman '99. "Both are symbols of male potency." Constantine M. Caramanis '99 recalls that his first-year roommate would signal to him with the type music he played. "When there was jazz, especially female vocalists, I would steer clear of the room," Caramanis explains...
...next few months, Balkin's assistants will pay people to stay up until 4 a.m. Then they're going to give them wads of gum and keep them up 14 hours more, testing their alertness by having them push a button as fast as they can when a signal goes off. The subjects will do this until they go mad and beat one another in a way that's uncoordinated enough to entertain the scientists. At least that's how I would run the experiment...
With the thing in place only three days before the big game, I went to work trying to get a high-definition signal. I got none. No Miami stations have started broadcasting in HD yet and the cable-TV industry hasn't even settled on a standard. My satellite dish wasn't any help, either. DirecTV shows one channel of HDTV, but nobody sells a decoder that can tune it in. Aaargh...
...walking college lecture--he is also dean of the University of Virginia school of architecture--McDonough is a compendium of similar maxims, phrases and rules: "Honor commerce as the engine of change"; "respect diversity"; "build for abundance"; "eco-efficiency should be replaced by eco-effectiveness"; "design is the first signal of human intention"; "all sustainability, like politics, is local"; "I want to do architecture that is timeless and mindful...
...recently as two weeks ago a headline in the New York Times was using the term "holy war" to describe meetings in Malaysia over the future of wireless phones. But a pending agreement between the two main rivals, Sweden's Ericsson and California's Qualcomm, could signal the end of hostilities for the double-consonant combatants...