Word: signalized
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...Early staffing decisions that will set the tone of the Administration. Two key appointments: chief of staff, which will signal whether Clinton will follow a top-down or hub-of-the-wheel governing style; and Treasury Secretary, which must be someone who can reassure both financial markets and the Federal Reserve that Clinton will exercise discipline as he pursues economic reform...
...initial chanting, our vegan delights (cheese and eggs were optional) were taken in complete silence. "Clappers" directed our actions, while we placed our bowls side by side, aligning our chop sticks 30 degrees (I kid not) from the table's edge--tips out. With a bow or a hand signal, we took the food sliding down the table. This had to be devoured in all haste, because slow eating is indulgence...
Which is not easy to do. Pienias is a tough signal-caller like Harvard's Mike Giardi, and passes for 181.8 yards per game. His persistence in the face of adversity has earned such respect and admiration, that his coach has taken to verse to praise...
...exactly what the U.S. signaled to him just before the invasion -- the question raised by Perot -- may have been irrelevant. As it was, the U.S. watched the buildup of Iraqi troops on the Kuwaiti border without any strong reaction. When U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie was abruptly summoned to a meeting with Saddam in late July as he threatened war, she told him that the U.S. "took no position" on the substance of his border dispute with Kuwait but also "that we can never excuse settlement of disputes by other than peaceful means." The same cautious message was conveyed to Saddam...
Initially, U.S. officials were uncertain what to make of these disclosures. Washington finally decided that Hanoi -- or at least some officials there -- was sending a signal that it finally wanted to meet Washington's principal precondition for re-establishing diplomatic relations: a full accounting of the missing. The payoff would be genuine progress toward normal ties and an end to the 17-year trade embargo, possibly before the end of the year...