Word: signaled
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Heroic Professor of Classical Greek and Comparitive Literature Gregory Nagy is concerned with the socio-cultural implications of cross-walk wars. "If the signal is a defiant stopping humanoid in red and a cheerful walking humanoid in green, then I would not [press the button]," says Nagy. "There is not enough semiotic power," Semiotic power?" Anyone who took Heroes would know what I mean...
...buttons really work? FM put the crosswalk button at the intersection of Throwbridge and Harvard streets the test. The results? Careful research has shown that pressing this button means the difference between getting a walk signal and waiting eternally...
German women's luge coach Sepp Lenz is back at work, hobbling on one leg. He lost the other last December when U.S. slider Bethany Calcaterra-McMahon collided with him on a track in Winterberg, Germany, after he failed to hear the "all-clear" signal that indicated she had started her race. He, of course, will never be the same; perhaps neither will she. German and American lugers had another, even darker, intersection last October, when skinheads beat up medal hopeful Duncan Kennedy, who intervened in a barroom incident to protect teammate Robert Pipkins, a target because he is black...
...several weeks after Reeves' inauguration, CCA representatives and other Cambridge politicos are debating whether Reeves' political shift to gain office will also signal a change in the mayor's ideology and in his relations with the Council...
While some panicky traders took the rate hike as a signal that the bull market might be over, other Wall Street watchers shrugged off such fears. "The market overreacted," asserted Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the investment firm C.J. Lawrence. "It's better for the Fed to tighten a little bit now rather than a lot later." Yet worried traders and investors remained shaken. Said Stan Weinstein, a stock market analyst and newsletter publisher in Hollywood, Florida: "The market is going to be awfully nervous next week...