Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge car, staring ahead tightlipped, with his window rolled up as if to say "No solicitors allowed." Each one sat there in his car, waiting intently for his light to turn green so that he could roar ahead, so that he could stop at the next signal, silent...
...bankers and businessmen, the strongest danger signal is credit, which has been slowed down, but apparently not enough. Despite the tightening of money by the Federal Reserve Banks and the highest bank discount rate (3%) in 23 years, consumer credit is still rising, has climbed some $4 billion since August 1955 to an annual rate of $37.5 billion. What worries Sears's Houser and others even more than rising credit is the apparent lack of concern over mounting inflation. They fear that the U.S. is lulling itself into a state of mind which accepts inflation as the normal, natural...
...speculator, however wild his imagination may be, must be careful always to criticize his own speculations. That is why the Speculative Society spends as much time criticizing its fanciful ideas as it does creating them. There must be "signals," the speculator's term for actual scientific fact, as well as "noise," the vague and indefinite element of speculation, in order for an idea to have any validity. Ordinary science has a high signal-to-noise ratio; speculation is mostly noise, Batteau admits, but not entirely...
Nowhere did Adlai's burning issues really start a signal fire. But if he was discouraged he did not show it. At week's end he said cheerily: "We know there's lots of things to get done, and come next January we're gonna start doing them...
According to Mary Schoenheit, "our public schools are antiquated institutions consuming our children's lives and our money and giving us in return trained seals who balance balls on their noses and bark at the right signal." Each pupil must progress at the same rate, and the result is that the school "molds little minds in the same groove, standardizes the children and stifles initiative." For the last month Mrs. Schoenheit has been giving her little Mary lessons in writing, reading, spelling, arithmetic, history and geography. She has also added Spanish and violin lessons. "Mary," she insists, "has done...