Word: signal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Signal to multimillionaires that they cannot buy seats in Congress. The right of a candidate to spend his own money is constitutionally protected. However, this gives wealthy candidates a tremendous advantage. The answer, to avoid injury to the Constitution, is not to limit the amount someone can spend on his own campaign but to offset it. If a candidate provides 15% or more of his campaign war chest, the opponent's party should be allowed to match that amount through a soft-money contribution...
...J.P.L., the scientists did what scientists do in such signal moments, responding with both exultant overstatement and near-surreal understatement. "This is a spectacular day," said mission manager Richard Cook. Rover scientist Henry Moore agreed, after a fashion. "Nobody," he said, without a trace of obvious irony, "has ever driven a car on Mars before...
...Pathfinder survives its inelegant touchdown unscathed, NASA scientists will waste no time getting to work. After the spacecraft gets its bearings, they'll send it a signal causing it to open up, revealing the papoose-like Sojourner rover inside. A camera on the lander will snap a picture of both the car and the landscape, and by 6 p.m. on the West Coast, NASA hopes to release the image both to the press and on the Web mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/) After that, it will at last be time for Brian Cooper to take the wheel...
...starry-eyed 19-year-old I know--nor, for that matter, many 40-year-olds bewitched by the reverie of hope triumphing over experience. Not since prenuptial agreements became fashionable among moguls acquiring trophy wives has there been a more likely killer of happily-ever-after than having to signal your preference in divorce...
...planned deployment would roughly match current British troop levels, today's announcement by the incoming government of Tung Chee-hwa was met with derision by colonial Governor Chris Patten. He warned that the sight of armored cars in the streets on July 1 would send "a very bad signal to Hong Kong and the rest of the world." To reach their barracks on Hong Kong Island, the 21 armored cars arriving with the deployment will have to pass through some of Hong Kong's most crowded urban districts. The new troops will join a contingent of 200 unarmed People...