Word: signaled
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...change? Disgusted by a yearlong parade of elite politicians and businessmen charged with corruption, thievery and underworld connections, voters last week gave a resounding yes to eight referendum questions, thereby fundamentally altering the way candidates for the Senate are elected. Acknowledging this display of popular will as a signal that Italians feel their political system no longer works, Prime Minister Giuliano Amato resigned after 10 months of holding together a much reviled coalition Cabinet. Referring to the voters' decision to repudiate nearly 50 years of Italian party politics, Amato declared, "The old regime is finished." As head of Italy...
...when a protein, called bFGF, releases a chemical signal which stimulates the growth of blood vessels, the tumor gains momentum and its cells proliferate, allowing it to enlarge...
...marital sex is generally not perceived as courageous. Murphy Brown's decision was. Her lionization in the media, and by society as a whole, sent an unmistakable signal: that a good single parent is the equivalent of two married parents...
...real injustice here is the idea that the stabbing was an inevitable tragedy for everyone involved. By delving into the pasts of the murderers and seizing upon any tidbit of possible trauma, the media is sending a signal that this story is more complicated than it might appear. The media is correct that there are two sides to every story, but the real sides are right and wrong. Bleeding and fleeing, human and savage, dead and alive. There is no in between in an act such as this, and to pretend otherwise is irresponsible...
...again, off-again rains kept umbrellas dancing like a semaphore signal routine. The three Harvard freshmen competing at Yale for the first time also had a more basic problem: finding the hole. They had never seen the golf course before, and when they arrived, they still couldn...