Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Washington and Moscow did their best to signal the world that nothing extraordinary had happened. Said Jody Powell, presidential press secretary: "This is not an act of war. It involves violations of maritime law." The Russians also remained studiously calm. Soviet newspapers completely ignored the matter for days, and Kremlin officials were conciliatory in their normal dealings with American diplomats...
...fetal calves. In effect, the formula fooled the parasite into acting as if it were in a natural host. Yet trypanosomes are exasperatingly fickle creatures. After they invade humans or cattle, they show a chameleon-like ability to change their protein coatings, whose molecular structure serves as a precise signal to the host's immune system for the production of specific antibodies against the invaders. As the immune system begins mustering appropriately shaped antibodies against the trypanosomes, the parasites change their coats and force the immune system to mount a new counterattack. This game of immunological hide-and-seek...
...Commissioner James Finch: "My feeling about any device used to circumvent or break our speed laws is that it should be made illegal." Though several states have outlawed Fuzzbusters, the bans have been struck down as an unconstitutional limitation of the public's right to receive any electronic signal on the air. Legal or not, more than 500,000 of the detectors have been sold so far. and over 1 million may well be in use by the end of the year...
Pacing outside Duino Castle near Trieste in early 1912, German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke heard a voice above the Adriatic surf: "And if I cried, who'd listen to me in those angelic orders?" Rilke took this enigmatic question as the signal to begin his chef-d'oeuvre: a series of poems that would unite the visible order of things with the invisible universe of thought-to see the world as the angels might. He finished two elegies and fragments of several others before inspiration deserted him. Ten years and a world war later, it suddenly reappeared...
...control of nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation as his principal foreign policy goal, Warnke's opponents effectively were endeavoring to undermine and, if possible, destroy the president's principal international objective. The 40 votes against Warnke are evidence of the strength of this feeling in the Senate and a signal of more trouble to come...