Word: signal
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After discussions with the UC, the University contracted a firm in October to study signal strength in the Quad, Mitchell said...
...suggestions that the economic crisis means the E.U. cannot afford to save energy and tackle climate change. "Climate action, energy security and economic growth can and must be pursued in a mutually supportive way," he said on Tuesday. "It would be a real mistake for Europe to give the signal that we are watering down our position after all these years leading the efforts for a global solution now that others, like the Americans, are coming closer to our position...
...Oberon,” an opera by Carl Maria von Weber, was first, and HRO’s rendition was both articulate and spirited. Rebecca L. Gruskin ’11 opened the piece with a solemn, clear horn call that, in the opera, would signal the beginning of the Elf-King’s quest to save the hero, Huan. Gruskin was impeccable throughout the evening, and when the call returned, it was as clear but more optimistic, fitting the music perfectly. The strings were agile both dynamically and technically, evoking a mystical landscape, and the winds marched solidly...
...bringing up the financial crisis in a public setting can earn you two years in jail. Yet the U.S. justice system can at least make a symbolic gesture in denying the parole of corporate criminals recently convicted for crimes. Their sentences were hailed not long ago for the strong signal they sent to would-be embezzlers; the time is right to use strict enforcement of those sentences to restate that message...
...centrist, bipartisan hands of new Republican leaders like his successor, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who last month hosted a GOP governors conference in Bush's home city of Miami, where that more pragmatic politics was trumpeted. Even if Bush doesn't run, "considering it" at least sends the signal that after two years ensconced in private family life, he's back in the game and will influence whomever the party does pick to succeed Martinez...