Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...race: how to get on ballots and where to get organized first. Teeter and others have asked a small army of potential campaign staffers--including unaffiliated G.O.P. pollsters, media buyers and veteran organizers--to "stay loose" until Powell decides. Some operatives have been told to expect a "signal" by Nov. 1; others look for a mid-November announcement...
...When companies are gluttonous with their profits and there is a declining standard of living for eighty percent of workers, that is a signal that we are declining," he said...
...important event [that] will probably be seen as significant in the history of African Americans." Still others, such as mayors Marc Morial of New Orleans and Michael White of Cleveland, Ohio, simply chose to say nothing. Taken together, all this may have amounted to Farrakhan's clearest signal of success: he had forced every thinking black man in America to make a painstaking decision about his march. He was, finally, where he wanted to be--on everyone's mind, whether they liked...
...make is that my hours and hours of "O.J. time" were richly rewarded. Forget ER and Murder One. For anyone sentient, the trial was the most compelling show on television. In fact--this may sound odd given that the Simpson saga will probably go down in history as the signal TV event of the 20th century, outstripping even the Kennedy assassination, the first moon walk and any number of very special episodes of Silver Spoons--I think the trial ultimately transcended television. As testimony dragged on and on, slowly accreting detail and complexity, the drama in Judge Ito's courtroom...
...last few pages of Andrew Greeley's 1981 best seller, The Cardinal Sins, there is a scene in which a crowd of reporters has gathered in St. Peter's Square in Rome to await the wisp of white smoke that will signal the election of a new Pope. One of those journalists, Greeley writes, is Jordan Bonfante, TIME's Rome bureau chief, who vanishes "to dash off his story" the moment the smoke appears...