Word: signal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...signal is broadcast and there's no one there to watch it, will it still display a crystalline digital picture? Hollywood must wonder after last week's word from ABC and CBS. Both networks will launch high-definition television programming in November, but despite the clear need for standards, they've settled on competing ones: CBS's 1080i, "the highest-quality HDTV digital format," vs. ABC's 720P, "the right solution for a converged future." With high-end sets that get both signals priced at $7,000, early HDTV could be playing to a paltry house...
...Science and Technology Directorate has a bland enough name. But within the CIA, the covert operatives of S&T are the most secretive and closed-mouthed of the agency's spies, with good reason. While billion-dollar signal-intelligence satellites vacuum up phone conversations from space, it is the S&T's techno-spooks on the ground who are cracking encryption codes and breaking into buildings overseas to plant bugs or parking themselves outside in vans to listen in on phone calls surreptitiously with high-tech electronic gear. No wonder the CIA heaved a collective shudder last week when...
...while in this way Lenin may be the central actor who begins the 20th century, he is the least knowable of characters. As a boy growing up in Simbirsk, Lenin distinguished himself in Latin and Greek. The signal event of his youth--the event that radicalized him--came in 1887, when his eldest brother Alexander, a student at the University of St. Petersburg, was hanged for conspiring to help assassinate Czar Alexander III. As a lawyer, Lenin became increasingly involved in radical politics, and after completing a three-year term of Siberian exile, he began his rise as the leading...
...well-practiced; his eyes are on her from the moment she steps into our line of vision, and his roommates acknowledge the subtle signal he gives--a tap on the leg and a quick raise of the eyebrow. The other men are also skilled at this sport. All four of them watch her closely without appearing to look--their collective stare is trained to be invisible...
...youth attracts a number of parade-goers by drumming on a plastic can. Eventually, he hands the sticks off to a buddy sitting on a bench just behind their makeshift stage. Four young men take turns playing the cans, until a cop on horseback approaches. The policeman makes a signal with his hand that looks like he's cutting his throat. The drummers are suddenly silent, focusing their attention on the cop's approach...