Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After nearly two hours, the Chairman asked: "Do you think we've talked enough?" With that signal, his guests got up, the nurse helped Mao to his feet and the Americans started to leave, after shaking hands. But one of the Chinese halted them. "The Chairman wants to walk you to the door," he said. Mao and Ford went into the hall with the Ping Pong table and on out to the front door. In that singular house in that faraway land, it was a special gesture by this living legend...
...these services, offered or actually performed, there was also the implicit signal that Hoover could find out almost anything and even Presidents should handle him with care. He ran the agency for 48 years and was seven years beyond the mandatory federal retirement age when he died in office...
...morning darkness; today many students are unapologetically out for themselves alone. Especially telling are the rise of guru- and pseudo-liberation fads in the wake of the earlier protest's defeat, and of "decadence" at schools like Yale, where leaves of absence are at an all-time low; they signal most vividly a spiralling-off of individuals into private worlds within a corporate universe...
...ranking officials in China's Washington liaison office were seeking guidance on Capitol Hill. TIME has learned that they soon got a briefing from the office of Senator Henry Jackson, who is, like Schlesinger, a detente critic. Jackson sought to reassure the Chinese that the firing did not signal any automatic easing of U.S. firmness toward the Soviet Union. Ford and his men will seek to make that point again in Peking next week. But they already know that the Chinese may not be buying this argument−or much of anything else...
...President was at first prepared to signal his intention to sign the bill, but postponed any decision after running into vigorous opposition from Republican Congressmen. The odds are that the bill will become law, however, largely because Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb has recommended that Ford sign. FEA officials are concerned that otherwise Congress might take an even tougher stand, such as moving to split up the oil industry...