Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week's bombing raids signal jut the opposite-much more clearly than the Cambodian invasion. The master plan, according to Washington sources, calls for a continued presence of a smaller troop commitment over the next several years, bolstered by increasing and wider bombing pressure to keep the North Vietnamese "off balance," The war will not end and the best Nixon can hope for is that less Americans will die there and the eyes of the public will turn away...
Dean May felt the Nixon administration was acting in a way "consistent with their analysis" of the situation. "I suppose it's a signal to North Vietnam that the American government is prepared to take 'prompt and efficient' action, if the North Vietnamese explicitly or implicitly refuse to accept a 'just peace,'" he said...
...Einsteinian calculations, a radio signal traveling past the sun to the Mariner 6's position at the time of the test should take about 200 millionths of a second longer than if it did not pass through the sun's gravitational field; that is because the signal's path would be curved, not straight. The Brans-Dicke theory, on the other hand, predicts less curvature and a slowdown of only 186 millionths of a second. While such bending has been measured before, the tests have never been accurate enough to make a firm case for either...
...J.P.L. experimenters reduced the margin of error to 4% or less by locating the distant spacecraft within 100 ft. of their actual position. Thus, when they calculated that the signal to Mariner was slowed down by 204 millionths of a second on its round trip, they dealt the Brans-Dicke theory a sharp if not decisive blow. Their measurement was only 4 millionths of a second off the Einsteinian prediction, but 18 millionths of a second off the Brans-Dicke figure...
...went to a ball in Little Women. What horrible act did Jo want Meg to do to signal her (Jo) when she was being gauche...