Word: signalized
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...system - the "last mile" that goes from the local-service provider to the house - you run into the electronic equivalent of a bumpy country road. In the phone system, the bottleneck is that last bit of copper wiring, which seems far too narrow to admit the profusion of TV signals poised to flow through it. In cable TV, the roadblocks are the long cascades of amplifiers that run from the company's transmission headquarters to the home, boosting the signal every quarter-mile or so. These amplifiers are notoriously unreliable and generate so much electronic noise that two-way traffic...
...Kathy U. Lash, press secretary to U.S. representative James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va), said Harvard representatives met with Moran to signal their opposition to the Navy move. "I'm assuming they're joining our efforts [to keep the Navy in Crystal City]," Lash said. "There was no signal...that they hadn...
...only was there often no payoff on the bottom line, but corporate chiefs who expected at least some applause from Wall Street for reducing labor costs also got a nasty shock. "Senior executives may think that a press release announcing layoffs sends a signal like, 'Look, I'm cutting costs, therefore reward me,' " says Carol Coles, president of Mitchell & Co., a management consulting firm in Waltham, Massachusetts. "But investors are a lot savvier than that. They know that firms that had major layoffs often have more significant problems. Streamlining a company does not push stock prices higher...
Students who tried to make long distance calls were met only with a fast busy signal. And some lines were disconnected, leaving callers to many rooms to be greeted with only a recording informing them, "You have reached a non-working or disconnected number at Harvard University...
...says empowering such minority advocates--rather than reducing their roles--at the highest levels of the College administration would send a signal to students that the College has their interests in mind...