Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July to 128.5 in mid-November, the highest since late 1969. Because the upturn began in early September and it takes at least three months before the consumer mood is translated into purchases, Sindlinger figures that a substantial rise in spending should start this month. The first signal that consumers have finally shed their fears for the future, he says, will come when the stock market picks up, which he expects around mid-December. After plunging for weeks, the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 18 points, to 817 last Friday. Though news of a possible settlement on the world monetary...
...moment, however, the main effect of Castro's trip has been to accentuate the political polarization in the region. Cuba is still considered a menace by many Latin American governments, notably Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Guatemala. They take his Chilean junket as the signal for a general broadening of a Communist wedge in Latin America...
Purrington will be remembered by Crimson fans as the third-string quarterback who came into last year's Harvard-Yale game in the fourth quarter in an attempt by Cozza to rally his troops after two other signal-callers had failed...
...dull black cylinder on a mock Spartan anti-ballistic missile waited buried an incredible 6,000 feet beneath tiny Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. The signal was given and in one-tenth of a millionth of a second, Cannikin, code name for the most powerful underground nuclear test ever held by the U.S., exploded with the force of 5 million tons of TNT. TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager reported from the command bunker on Amchitka that half a second after detonation the earth heaved upward, hiding the test site in a curtain of dust and water, and aftershocks rumbled...
...provide rapid transit along a 3.5-mile stretch of traffic-clogged roadway in Morgantown, W. Va., connecting the three campuses of West Virginia University and the downtown area. Boeing and subcontractors will build the track line and about 85 electrically powered, computer-operated cars. Commuters will be able to signal the vehicles, which carry 17 passengers and run at speeds up to 30 m.p.h., to stop by pushing buttons located inside the cars and at each terminal. Boeing officials have promised to have the system in full operation by the end of 1973. Boeing also won a $10.5 million contract...