Word: signal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peace process for Northern Ireland. British Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart, John Bruton, emerged from a Downing Street summit to present a joint plan for all-party talks on Ulster's future that could pave the way for peace. What was needed was a clear signal that the I.R.A. would call off the violence, thus allowing its political wing, Sinn Fein, to join the negotiations...
...about Wigand, a former vice president of Brown & Williamson and the highest-ranking tobacco executive ever to turn whistle blower, he was appalled. "It hit me like a silver bullet," says Alfarano. "[B&W] can deal with one or two defectors, but I think [they wanted] to send a signal to anybody else who's thinking about testifying...
...nation's secretaries of state have formed a committee, of which Massachusetts' Galvin is a member, to consider changes to the primary schedule. The Yankee Primary, if it goes well, may send a signal to the country that regional primaries are a viable election reform, McCarthy says...
...Mexican bailout through Congress--and he's apt to put a Jewish name at the scene of the crime. His favorites are Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, the investment-banking firm of Goldman, Sachs and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Buchanan insists he's not sending out an anti-Semitic signal. Somehow anti-Semites are hearing it anyway. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the vaudeville-ready Russian presidential contender, was moved to send Buchanan fraternal greetings last week and to suggest that they could cooperate to deport Jews from both the U.S. and Russia. Buchanan, appalled, fired back his refusal...
That doesn't mean "you scream publicly," Forbes said. "You don't cause China to lose face needlessly. You hit them hard in private and send an unmistakable public signal. You send the Navy to the Taiwan Strait. You don't explain why. You just do it. They'll get the message." Forbes was heartened when Clinton had the aircraft carrier Nimitz steam between China and Taiwan last December, but "dumbfounded" when "some stupid functionary said it was there only because of bad weather in the Pacific." But what if China lobbed missiles at Taiwan instead of invading...