Word: signalizes
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When the sun goes down, the streets empty quickly. Curfew unofficially begins at 11 p.m., but few drivers, even those earning dollars from foreigners, stay out that late. One learns to fear the shadows that move. Gunfire punches holes in the city's eerie quiet. Two sharp cracks signal an American checkpoint firing warning shots. Rapid automatic fire sounds the news that electricity has returned to a neighborhood. Most ominous of all is the single shot...
...disappearance of Rock Bottom will signal the fourth consecutive year that a bar popular with students has closed in the Square...
...whittle away the deficit, support the dollar and keep growth accelerating. David Bowers, chief global strategist at Merrill Lynch, isn't yet favoring U.S. cyclicals. "But we're watching very closely," he says, "and think the U.S. financial stocks, which have done well, may be giving us a signal" that growth is soon to return...
...attack marks a dramatic shift for al-Qaeda, which had for the most part avoided conducting terror operations on Saudi territory. And that could signal a change in al-Qaeda's strategic priorities in response to 18 months of pressure on the organization by the U.S. and its allies, as well as the changed reality in the Middle East now that the U.S. has settled in for a long occupation of Iraq...
...make up a major component of al-Qaeda's senior leadership have a long-established tradition of direct and bloody attacks on their own government. And the al-Qaeda leadership may read the decision by the U.S. to withdraw most of its troops from Saudi Arabia as a signal of the growing vulnerability of a regime they regard as illegitimate...