Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediate danger of an unanswered Soviet arms buildup is that it could prompt other countries to bow to Moscow's demands in some future diplomatic crisis. Explains London's Burt: "If the U.S. decided not to keep pace with the Soviets in strategic competition, it could signal a lack of resolve to America's allies." Another danger is that the Soviets may try to take advantage of either a real or merely a perceived superiority and expand their sphere of influence. Says General David C. Jones, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff: "In many parts of the world, the Soviets...
...missiles and that this would "make a big difference" in the bargaining. If some such accord is reached, more drastic limitations could be reserved for an anticipated SALT III agreement-and U.S.-Soviet relations would be back on a closer course. A stalemate at Geneva, however, would signal a deep and not easily repairable disintegration of that troubled experiment known as detente...
...perform the function that it does best. As Bradshaw wrote in the February Fortune: "We should not strive to bring about more government intervention in economic matters, but we surely need to make that intervention more rational. " Bradshaw's prescription: Government must set the overall goals and signal to industry what it wants done. Then, with a minimum of federal interference, industry should get on with the job of accomplishing those goals...
...today, with production still growing at about 18% a year. About 500 U.S. companies now either manufacture beepers or operate beeper networks. In most systems, the caller dials a seven-digit number that feeds into a central computer. There the number is translated into a coded radio signal and fed by phone lines to a radio transmitter that sends the beep to the designated pocket receiver...
...prosecution in a 1967 test case in Boston, Farnsworth vice-chaired the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse established during the Nixon administration. A blue-ribbon group of establishment notables, the commission spent millions of dollars in extensive analysis and published its findings in March 1972 in Marijuana: Signal of Misunderstanding. It was a book that former President Nixon did not care to read. Oteri notes, "Farnsworth was a man who turned 180 degrees in his position and had the guts to admit it publicly; the reps had to respect that...