Word: signal
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MADRID, SPAIN: Thursday's indictment of former Spanish interior minister Jose Barrionuevo on charges that he ordered the killing and kidnapping of Basque separatists could signal the end of Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez's 14-year reign. "This announcement is a slap in the face to Gonzalez and his party," reports TIME's Jane Walker from Madrid. "People have a hard time believing that Gonzalez did not know about the death squads. But the Prime Minister has given no indication that he will take Barrionuevo's name off a candidate list for the March 3 national elections. Gonzalez...
...sale of environmentalism supposed to signal a newfound greenness in America? Not anymore than the sale of missile defense systems is supposed to promote peace. The unintentional effect of Secretary Christopher's speech was to smash illusions, and it seems that the great majority of the audience was in full compliance with the new revelatory attitude...
...social phenomenon, AT&T's move is the most decisive signal yet that the old bonds of mutual loyalty between worker and giant company are being strained to the breaking point. Of all American firms, AT&T probably came closest to a Japanese-style identification of worker with corporation. It was once common for an AT&T employee, asked by a new acquaintance what he did, rather than replying "I'm an accountant" or "I'm an engineer" to say "I work for the phone company...
Halfway down a corridor, Becky suddenly heard "the voice," an irritating robotic message transmitted from the suitcase to a wireless, button-sized beige receiver in her ear. "Gamma alarm four," the voice droned. That was a strong radiation signal. She glanced left at the room number on the next door and subtracted three from it. The detector's microcomputer takes several seconds to analyze the radiation and calculate its strength, so the room three doors behind her must have been the one actually giving off gamma rays...
...Still, the Republican budget doesn't really cut the size of the government as it exists today. It only reduces the share of gross domestic product that government would have taken if existing spending patterns had gone unchanged. The Republican proposal does promise a balanced budget in 2002, a signal accomplishment. Most important, the argument is settled about whether balance is desirable. Bill Clinton has signed on. But fiscal sanity is not the goal. Reducing the scope of the government is. So there is much more to do. How much, exactly? Newt Gingrich doesn't say. But his chief lieutenant...