Word: signal
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...Greenwich, but don't tell that to anyone in Britain. The London borough, home to the Royal Observatory and located right smack on the 0[degree] meridian, will mark the stroke of midnight, Greenwich mean time, by shooting a green laser beam into the sky and bouncing a satellite signal around the world that will set off international celebrations...
...dividing her attention between my education and anyone else staring at a fish. To a girl in pigtails eyeing a flounder she says, "See? He's looking at you too!" Earle is one of those dangerous people whose buoyant charm can make people do preposterous things. At a mere signal of her hand, I find myself on all fours, crawling through the toddler entrance to the exhibit for children...
Wideman refracts his novel entirely through the thoughts and memories of his characters. Reading Two Cities can be demanding: abrupt, unannounced shifts from one point of view to another, foreshadowings and flashbacks, no quotation marks to signal dialogues in progress. But a novel easier to read might also be easier to forget...
Buried in the more than 650 pages of Congress' reauthorization of the Higher Education Act this week is a signal that the federal government has finally gotten tough on campus crime...
...Party of Democratic Socialism -- made a surprisingly strong comeback, gaining a total of 35 seats. That leftward tilt gives Schroeder a firm mandate to fulfill his promise to reverse Kohl's welfare cuts. But when it comes to pushing through tax and labor reforms, Green doesn't necessarily signal...