Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retail price: $15). The blinking red lights are embedded in small, gold-colored trinkets, variously designed as traffic lights, question marks and Santa Claus, among other things. They can augment conversation. When a patron at the Phoenix Playboy Club asked a Bunny why the red light on her traffic-signal pendant, suspended above an intersection, was blinking, she sweetly responded: "Red means stop. Proceed with caution...
...cover, which winds up a small generator inside the device and exposes a panel with buttons labeled in both English and Spanish: SERVICE, POLICE, MEDICAL and CANCEL. When the motorist presses the appropriate button, the generator produces electricity. This energizes a solid-state FM radio transmitter, which sends a signal to a console at highway-patrol headquarters. There, dispatchers record the location of the box and call for a tow truck, ambulance, fire engine or squad car. Help usually reaches the motorist within 30 minutes...
Nevertheless, the states are planning distinctive touches of their own for the boxes such as a tone sounder that lets motorists know that their signal has been received. In Illinois, the department of transportation has attached a sign on each box telling the motorist how long he can expect to wait for help. As one official explains: "At midnight, five minutes can seem like an hour...
...final batch of business statistics issued before the presidential election gave a clear signal: now that the campaign's last heady hurrah has faded, the victor faces a tough task in getting the laggard economy back on schedule. With few exceptions, the indicators point to continuing sluggishness in the business growth needed to create jobs, sales and profits. The most disappointing disclosure: the Government's composite index of leading indicators, which had risen for 17 consecutive months as the economy climbed out of its worst recession in decades, fell .7% in September-the second monthly drop...
...also that its record as a measure of future business trends is uneven. Three times since 1948 the index fell for two months in a row but no economic downturn followed. On six other occasions, however, two or more consecutive months of decline in the index did signal an overall drop in economic activity...