Word: signal
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...editor James R. Gaines, managing editor of TIME International Karsten Prager and Moscow bureau chief John Kohan, the Russian President ranged across all those issues and more. He and Clinton are getting "closer" to resolving their NATO differences, Yeltsin reported. His most apparent wish was to send a clear signal to Washington that he has high hopes for a summit meeting that many have already written off as nothing more than a polite exchange of views between leaders who are both under pressure from domestic political opponents...
...quite saddened by yesterday's meeting,"Grosz said. "I remain cautiously optimisticbecause of the resources committee being set up,but I hope that this response from the Corporationis not a signal that they are uninterested withthe faculty...
...reporting from the roof of the old U.S. embassy and the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Veterans' groups and congressional fact-finding delegations are swarming over the country. Instead of simply reliving the war, though, the visitors are discovering the new Vietnam, where rooftop satellite dishes and joint-venture hotels signal the emergence of one of the world's newest success stories...
...self-absorbed egocentric, but that was more an accident of looks than a matter of intent, and he fought against it, sometimes with self-parody. We will not live to see the day Caruso sends himself up. For he seems to believe inwardness is a guarantee of integrity, a signal that a whole lot of serious acting--too fine for him to share fully with us--is going on inside his head. Me? I'll have the ham sandwich, thanks...
Finally, the replacement of retiring Corporation member Charles P. Slichter '45, a physicist and chemist at the University of Illinois, with James R. Houghton '58, the CEO of Corning, Inc., was a signal to some observers that the University's highest governing board was becoming too corporate and less academic...