Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state's longest and most widespread drought. New Delhi recorded ^ its hottest day in more than 40 years in June; Rome last week had its hottest day of this century. Torrential rains have become so severe in Hong Kong that meteorologists coined a new term -- black rainstorm alert -- to signal their approach. Weather-related losses at Lloyd's of London are staggering. Says underwriter Richard Keeling: "From what we have experienced over the past four or five years, we have either been very unlucky or things are getting worse out there...
...uses giant video screens, satellite technology and automobiles swinging from cranes to evoke the surrealist, fast-forward distortion of the digitalized global village. In the title track, garbled voices, piano and a pulsing bass emerge from a haze of static like a radio receiver tuning in to a distant signal...
...that Sheik Rahman is in custody, the joke could be over. Or, if the government continues its blundering, Rahman's incarceration could signal the beginning of the third act of this already overlong comedy. There is no doubt that the case has such potential. Though Rahman is wanted in Egypt for inciting a violent anti-government demonstration, the Egyptians haven't seemed eager to take him back...
...fund a whole lot of seemingly separate intelligence documents. Let's say, the Israelis prepare a document which they're prepared to give to an American liaison. They're also prepared to give another version of this same intelligence to the French. The French receive it and immediately signal some of it for economic gain to the Syrians. Then the National Security Agency comes in, intercepts France to Damascus, and there you get corroboration of the intelligence which has already come through from the same source. It's the proof cooked three different ways, but has actually come from...
...National Park System has stirred national concern. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt visited the park in February and came back "absolutely appalled." Since then he has endorsed the idea of reclaiming thousands of acres of private property to protect this prime parcel of public land, an approach that could signal a fundamental shift in the way U.S. parkland is managed. "We can't defend the Everglades -- or Yellowstone -- just at their boundaries," says Jim Webb, regional director of the Wilderness Society. "We have to deal with the whole ecosystem...