Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sentiments of this officer were made clearer at a subsequent meeting. At that time he raised his hand to signal two minutes to an impatient fellow officer. When some of his men misunderstood the signal and thought he was giving the peace sign, he turned on them quickly. "This is my sign," he said, holding up three fingers. "You know what it means? Fuck Peace. You got it. Fuck Peace; this world ain't ready for peace...
Calming the Worst Fear. Was this the signal that the worst bear market since 1937-38 has at last ended? No one will really know for weeks or even months. At first, brokers tended to distrust the rally, which began for no fundamental reason they could identify. Analysts talked of technical factors like a buying panic among short sellers, who had sold borrowed stock in the hope that the price would drop and then scrambled to cover their positions when prices began to rise. There were rumors, too, that for some mysterious reason important foreign investors had decided to pump...
...jawboned industries, including steel, copper, autos and aluminum?but that prices jumped 6% in those industries in Nixon's first year. When Nixon made the mistake of proclaiming at the start of his presidency that he would do no jawboning, businessmen and labor leaders took his announcement as a signal to go for all the increases they could get?and they did just that. A presidential guideline on just what size wage increases would be noninflationary might give company executives a bargaining point in labor negotiations, and give union leaders a talking point in dealing with their own rebellious members...
...just a little over a week after Kent State and the same volatile ingredients were once again present. A tense college campus. A mob of angry, jeering students provoking a line of nervous armed peace officers. Rumors of snipers. The crash of rocks and bottles. And suddenly some signal triggering an atavistic convulsion brought on an unexpected eruption of gunfire. Finally, the youthful bodies, bleeding on the smooth campus lawn. The scene this time was Mississippi's predominantly black Jackson State College...
According to one of the group, Richard Neustadt (expert on the Presidency) then added, "What this is going to signal to American senior military officers-and the Saigon government-is that, if you put enough pressure on Nixon by emphasizing that American boys are dying, you can get the President to do very discontinuous things. And this makes his whole promise of withdrawal open to question. It's not that we doubt his intention; it's just that we're unsure of the pressure available to field commanders...