Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little personal ambition. "I want to be Franco's last Prime Minister but not Juan Carlos' first one," he once confided to a friend. Nonetheless, if Juan Carlos urges Arias to carry on in office with his ministers, that will be interpreted by the left as a signal that Spain is not about to change very quickly...
...smaller increases that some other nations are making cannot be read as anything like a signal of OPEC'S breakup. OPEC has demonstrated formidable unity and economic muscle by quintupling oil prices since late 1973-and by posting an increase now in the face of weak demand. Moreover, its current price hikes, though smaller than announced, are still a heavy burden on the world's consumers; OPEC exporters alone will raise world oil bills around $9 billion a year. Still, they demonstrate that not even OPEC can ignore the market...
Carey summoned the three trustees and Big Mac officials to a meeting in the conference room of his mid-Manhattan offices. All Thursday night and into Friday afternoon, the trustees waited for a signal from Al Shanker...
...increases averaging roughly $200 on '76 cars are not turning off would-be buyers to anything like the extent that price boosts of about $450 on the '75s did twelve months ago. Last fall slumping sales at the start of the 1975-model run gave an early signal that what had been a mild recession was turning into a nosedive; this year climbing sales at the start of the new auto model-year could be a sign that recovery is gaining more strength than was foreseen...
...week from the board's actions on so-called Federal Funds-that banks lend to each other overnight. The interest rate on such loans is heavily influenced by the Federal Reserve's purchases or sales of Government securities. The board often uses the Fed Funds rate to signal its intentions on money supply; it will let the rate rise to show a tightening, permit it to fall in order to flash a sign of expansion. At one point last week, the board let the Fed Funds rate fall to 5.875%, the lowest level in two months, before...