Word: signalized
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...light, neighborhood movie audiences thin. Some late-hour shopkeepers close up for the night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks. On big-city bar rails, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever a signal from an NBC transmitter can be picked out of the air, a large part of the population has its eyes fixed on a TV screen...
...unlikely that Washington expected instant results from Zinni. Sending him to the region was in part an attempt to signal a reengagement with the crisis in the face of Arab criticism that the Bush administration's hands-off approach had allowed the situation to dangerously deteriorate. But between reengagement and results there remains an epic...
...help set the record straight by speaking up, as one scholar who values his own integrity and reputation for meticulous attribution as much as anyone could, for one of the truly outstanding historians of our time, who eloquently brings to life and puts in marvelous perspective not only signal episodes of our past, some misunderstood and others never before unearthed, but also the passing drama of our present...
With al-Qaeda sprinkled around the globe, it becomes harder to develop the intelligence needed to take the fight to the enemy. Last week the Administration gave its clearest signal yet that the war won't stop in Afghanistan or even the Philippines, when it announced plans to send special-ops troops to Yemen and the former Soviet republic of Georgia, both countries where al-Qaeda fighters are believed to be hiding...
...labored to build and bestride has become too wobbly to bear his weight gracefully. A former aide to Bill Clinton says that Blair "is a little like Vladimir Putin: he hasn't gotten much for his westward drift." Labour backbenchers are roiling as M.P.s beyond the usual antiwar suspects signal strong opposition to an Iraq war. Claire Short, the International Development Minister, has said privately she will protest in the streets if Iraq is bombed. But like a monk who believes self-flagellation is the path to salvation, Blair said last week he thinks Bush is right to focus...