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After the officer was sprayed, he called in an "OT" or "officer in trouble" signal over his radio, resulting in and enormous police turnout that subsequently shut down the party...
...less than the current budget -- still caused critics to carp and unions to bawl. But Giuliani remained adamant. "Disagree with us about how we distribute the pie," said the Republican, "but agree with us that it has to be a smaller pie." It was Giuliani's most substantial signal that New York City -- the biggest spender of them all -- was joining a movement trying to transform big- city gimme government. Wielding corporate-style tactics, the CEO mayors are taking on city hall...
...civil rights division in the Clinton Administration early in 1993. The characterization of her work as "profoundly anti-democratic" and of Guinier herself as a "Quota Queen" by the press, which led eventually to the President's withdrawl of her nomination, can itself be read as a signal of a "national discomfort with the brute facts of racial injustice." At least, this is the interpretation placed on last year's events both by Stephen L. Carter's foreword to the collection, and by Guinier's specially written introduction. Framed in this way, the book becomes a forum for the public...
...peacekeeping force already in Rwanda to police an agreement last August for power sharing with Tutsi rebels in the Hutu-led government was hastily reduced from 2,600 to 470 when the massacres began and 10 Belgian blue helmets were killed. The signal sent, says a senior African diplomat, "was, Look, you are on your own. You may do whatever you want...
...They have committed the University to twosenior appointments," Flier said, "which is a verystrong commitment and a strong signal thatLinguistics is alive and well and moving...