Word: signal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courses in early childhood development. The prospect of all-hours access to Barney and the Teletubbies is one more in a growing list of reasons you might someday shell out thousands of dollars for the high-definition television required to view HDTV. Another is that the network's digital signal provides interactivity with PBS's web site as well as the ability to decide when your child's favorite shows air on your set. Of course, since tie-in videos are currently available for most children's shows, and few toddlers are shy about asking for them incessantly, Barney...
Washington and its National Security Agency came up with a solution: an automated system that did not put people at risk. The NSA has a team of covert operatives who work with agents in the CIA's Science and Technology Directorate to manufacture the highly sophisticated ground scanners and signal interceptors that the U.S. plants in foreign countries. To intercept signals, the NSA and S&T teams developed miniaturized monitors that are concealed in everyday objects such as lamps, phones, signposts, building gutters and commercial electric equipment. The CIA even has its own secret factory, which produces microbatteries no bigger...
...deal painstakingly negotiated by European monitors, the KLA released eight captive Serb soldiers after the Serbs agreed to hand over nine KLA prisoners. The deal surprised many observers, who expected the Serbs to maintain a hard line. "This is a major step forward for the KLA and may signal further diplomatic progress in the region," says Anastasijevic. But with the KLA committed to fight for full independence and the Serbs dead set against letting them go, even today's breakthrough won't stop further violence...
...serves at the President's pleasure, effectively review the President's decision? How can a committee answering to Dean Knowles effectively review a decision of the President? Wasn't this a sham, just a tactic to ensnare Peter's case in procedure while his time ran out? Same signal from Anne Taylor...
...pull them apart and tell them to fight on. U.S. planes Wednesday attacked an Iraqi missile site for the third time in a week, but no progress was expected from a U.N. Security Council consultation over the future of UNSCOM. "Everyone's waiting for Washington to send a signal on how it wants to proceed after the bombing, but we haven't done that," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The Security Council is split over sanctions and the future of UNSCOM, but diplomats at the U.N. also believe that Washington itself is divided and that there's no clear...