Word: signal
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...satellites. For example, the CIA wants to build $1 billion-apiece "8X" spy satellites to photograph targets, even though it has sitting in warehouses about half a dozen satellites that have the capacity to take pictures for the next decade. The Air Force recently launched two $1 billion "Trumpet" signal intercepting satellites, which spend most of their time parked over the former Soviet Union. Furthermore, satellites may simply not be that useful. A highly classified CIA study recently concluded that satellites provide less than 10% of the valuable signal intelligence collected from such rogue states as Iraq and Iran. Most...
...largely symbolic, because Goetz will hardly be able to pay even a small fraction of the settlement. The civil proceedings were begun by the late anti-establishment legal hero William Kunstler, and concluded by Ronald Kuby, the pony-tailed bearer of Kunstler's mantle. The second Goetz verdict may signal that juries have become more immune to race-baiting or less likely to see black youth as potential muggers...
...approved by stockholders, as expected, the combined entity, to be known as Aetna Inc., will provide health care for 23 million people, or 1 in every 12 Americans. The $8.9 billion merger, which mirrors a recent batch of smaller consolidations in the managed-care field, is a clear signal that big medicine is here to stay, whether you like its bedside manner or not. "The main effect of the huge merger is that it will be replicated by insurers across the country," says Kenneth Abramowitz, a health-care analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein in New York City...
After Skakkebaek's paper appeared, says Myers, "it immediately became apparent that nature is sending a very strong signal that something is amiss." Just as theoretical chemistry in the 1970s presaged the discovery of the ozone hole a decade later, he argues, "laboratory work on environmental toxins presaged the discovery of the decline in sperm count...
...visibility of events like BGLAD are important in helping students feel more comfortable as members of the gay community. And they send a signal of acceptance to students who are thinking of coming out of the closet, Croes says...