Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American president--a self-proclaimed free trader, no less--to come to the GATT and propose quotas and managed trade marks a mortal blow to the free trade ideal. It is a signal that in the post-Cold War world, trading blocs and mutual hostilities will replace open borders and open hearts...
...biology-as-destiny in both of the new menopause tomes. The existential adjustments the authors advise seem wholesome enough, yet it's not clear why they should be tied to such an obvious nonevent as the cessation of menstruation (which, with the latest technology, does not even necessarily signal the end of childbearing). There's no age that isn't a good time to confront one's mortality or to consider a second adulthood -- for men as well as women...
Without the comfort zone most signal-callers enjoy, Giardi takes it upon himself to move the ball no matter what the cost is to his body. Unfortunately, Giardi's high-risk playing style makes him, well, a high risk...
...future directions to perceive two very different governing philosophies. It simply is not true, as even many academics contend, that the candidates differ only at the margins. From Bush it is more of the same, a laissez-faire embrace of free markets, a scarcely subtle survival-of-the- fittest signal. The Republicans, it is clear, see nothing wrong with extending the Me decade indefinitely; no matter that Reagan's trickle-down nostrums, which were supposed to lift all boats, have so far lifted only yachts...
...senior signal-caller has had two main weapons this season: fleetfooted sophomore Erik Marsh (549 yards, 102 attempts) and junior tight end Craig Roubinek (245 yards, 20 receptions...