Word: signalized
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...three years, the agency's Saigon station continued to send teams into North Vietnam even as evidence mounted that the North Vietnamese seemed always to know where and when they were coming. Some captured radio operators, ordered by the North Vietnamese to ask for more agents, managed to signal to their CIA handlers with code words that they were being held. Still, when SOG, the Pentagon's Studies and Observations Group, took over Oplan-34A in 1964, it sent hundreds more commandos into North Vietnam during the next four years, even though the officers in charge of the program...
...England wealth is traditionally inherited rather than created, which makes him an odd duck in the land of mad cows. He belongs in the U.S., the wellspring of genius entrepreneurs and shameless hucksters alike, which is why the flashy Times Square stunt is a perfect way for Branson to signal the next phase of his U.S. expansion. Says Ian Duffell, president of Virgin Retail Group in North America: "We've planted our flag here...
...unanimous ruling was hailed by civil libertarians as a signal moment in the struggle for free speech. "This is as historic a case as we've had in our history of First Amendment fights," said Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, which led the court challenge on behalf of some 50 plaintiffs ranging from the American Library Association to Microsoft. Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center called the decision "the Times v. Sullivan of cyberspace," a reference to the 1964 Supreme Court decision that granted broad protection to journalists...
...Saddam had been demonstrating complete intransigence. While the Iraqis were complaining that they had no money for food and medicine, Saddam was building new and more lavish palaces for himself. Was he leaving the Jacuzzi out of the downstairs loo of a palace now and then as a subtle signal that he was a man who, in the end, knew the meaning of the word compromise? There was nothing in the newspapers to indicate that...
...friend back in Missouri also believes that anyone who wants to sound knowing in one of these discussions should use the word signal now and then. "I think Baghdad might be signaling us on this one," I can imagine myself saying at the Gulf task-force meeting. "He's showing us that he's willing to rethink his entire ear-amputation policy...