Word: signalized
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...resentment are frowned upon; everyone flies coach, including the CEO. De Luca roams the halls to chat with lower-level staffers and encourages everyone to e-mail him with ideas. A few years ago, he dyed his hair pink after losing a bet with an employee. That sent the signal, he says, that "the boss may be crazy, but he's somebody I can talk...
...threat of force can only be effective when it is clearly contingent on the behavior of our enemies. But the way we ended up attacking Iraq sent the signal to other rogue nations that they have nothing to lose from adopting a more hostile position. When America wants to invade, there’s no changing its mind. At least that seems to be the message two other “axis of evil” regimes are getting. In August, the International Atomic Energy Agency found traces of enriched uranium at a centrifuge facility in Iran, and North Korea...
...someone who says she recognizes the value of delegating authority, Kidd believes the way Gross has structured her job is not a signal that student life is undervalued...
...Laser Long before the laser was invented, Albert Einstein reckoned that excited molecules hit by photons would produce an amplified signal. In 1960 Theodore Maiman built the first working laser (short for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), a coherent beam of electromagnetic energy produced by light waves traveling the same path. Today the devices are ubiquitous: guiding rockets for the military, cutting steel, unclogging arteries in the O.R.--and playing your favorite Radiohead...
Born in Waukeegan, Ill., in 1920, Ford graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He served in the United States Army Signal Corps and the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency, doing intelligence work in Germany, studying the German resistance and visiting the liberated concentration camp at Dachow...