Word: signal
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...sociology at New York University. "I'm filled with disgust with what has become of this country, and I hold the media crucially responsible. What has happened is that in the glee, sometimes even the guilty glee, of enthusiasm for this story, the press has sent a very clear signal to the public that it lives in a different world than the world of a self-governing democracy...
That cost is growing. Last Tuesday the yen hit a new low--about 147 to the U.S. dollar--and the region hiccuped with pain. The cheap yen was a strong signal to investors who were betting that Asia has farther down to go before it takes any steps up. On international markets, it was the yen slip that triggered the attack against the HKD. During a weeklong run-and-gun battle between speculators and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the peg remained firm. (The HKD is pegged to the U.S. dollar at a ratio of 7.8 to 1.) A defiant...
...catch? Blank music CDs are still expensive. CD-R music discs cost $6 to $10 apiece, CD-RW discs a whopping $18 to $25. That's thanks in part to a royalty agreement with the recording industry, which also requires that a special "copyright flag," or signal, be embedded on blank discs and that CD recorders accept only these flagged discs. That has kept the price of recordable CDs for music artificially high; virtually identical recordable CDs for computers by contrast are relatively cheap...
...oxymoron here," notes TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "This was a couple of tents and an obstacle course -- we probably improved the obstacle course." Still, destruction of the enemy's assets may not be the best measure of the mission's success: "Far more important here is the signal sent, telling terrorists that if they attack the U.S., they will be heavily targeted...
...stabilize the capsule's position, failed. The man had to take over too when dealing with the apparent threat that the heat shield had come loose, which meant that if it were to separate completely on re-entry, Glenn would be devoured in a flood of flames. The warning signal proved false, but Glenn and the people back at NASA could not know that, so men had to alter re-entry procedures...