Word: signaled
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...natural to think that the greening of the peninsula might signal the much-debated advent of global warming, caused by the accumulation in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other gases released by the burning of fossil fuels. As long ago as 1978 a paper in the journal Nature urged scientists to look to Antarctica for early indications of the so-called greenhouse effect--among them the breakup of ice shelves off the Antarctic Peninsula...
...fighting for what they believe are their property rights. Last week the Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Nye County in Nevada from taking over federal lands and intimidating federal officials. Associate Attorney General John Schmidt said the Justice Department suit was intended to send a signal to other rebel movements in California, Idaho, New Mexico and Oregon and "put to rest the idea that any county has the right to enact laws to override the Constitution...
...presence of people of color in aninstitution is to give a signal to people of colorthat it is an okay institution, [that] it is notkeeping people out because of their race," hesaid...
...presence of people of color in aninstitution is to give a signal to people of colorthat it is an okay institution, [that] it is notkeeping people out because of their race," Eppssaid...
...Cape Town last week, motorcycle outriders escorted President Nelson Mandela to Parliament, where a red carpet ribboned down the granite steps. Leaving his limousine, Mandela was greeted by a navy honor guard in spotless whites. Air force jets flew overhead, and a 21-gun salute rang out from nearby Signal Hill. Beginning his second year in office, Mandela had arrived to open a new session of Parliament, and the spectacle suited the occasion--to all who remember apartheid, the very existence of a Mandela administration in South Africa is still amazing...