Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argument over the campaign's central message raged all through March. Matters finally came to a head in early April as Yeltsin prepared to give a speech unveiling his campaign program. That address was expected to signal the campaign's substance and tone, and it became a major battleground for control of the campaign. In a nine-point memo dated April 2 that covered content, theme and staging, the team wrote that the "overall goal of the kickoff speech [should be] to demonstrate to the average Russian that Yeltsin understands the suffering the country has been going through...The President...
...bankruptcy boom may signal trouble ahead for the U.S. economy. Real after-tax income growth has been slow for years, yet consumers have continued to buy; they have simply substituted debt for cash. Now they are even flashing plastic to buy groceries. Household borrowing currently stands at a record $1.14 trillion, an amount equal to Britain's entire gross domestic product. A spike in interest rates could thus send U.S. consumers--not to mention the rest of the economy--into a funk...
...According to the most recent beauty research, this should indeed be the case: the standards of beauty that men bring to the beach, scientists claim, are innate and universal and involve, among other things, a waist-to-hip ratio of about 0.7, which was apparently taken as a reliable signal of female fertility in the Pleistocene epoch. So if you have any ambition to propagate your genes, this theory goes, you'd better stay in that fitting room until you find something that works...
...England wealth is traditionally inherited rather than created, which makes him an odd duck in the land of mad cows. He belongs in the U.S., the wellspring of genius entrepreneurs and shameless hucksters alike, which is why the flashy Times Square stunt is a perfect way for Branson to signal the next phase of his U.S. expansion. Says Ian Duffell, president of Virgin Retail Group in North America: "We've planted our flag here...
...unanimous ruling was hailed by civil libertarians as a signal moment in the struggle for free speech. "This is as historic a case as we've had in our history of First Amendment fights," said Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, which led the court challenge on behalf of some 50 plaintiffs ranging from the American Library Association to Microsoft. Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center called the decision "the Times v. Sullivan of cyberspace," a reference to the 1964 Supreme Court decision that granted broad protection to journalists...