Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revised version authorizes the President to scrap the 4% jobless target if necessary to keep inflation from rising rapidly-a signal to wary businessmen that the Administration is serious about holding prices down...
...simply, that was a bummer," said Harvard quarterback Haywood Miller, one of three signal-callers utilized by coach Loyal Park in the defensive slugfest. Miller and cohorts Pat Carreon and Mike Jacobs could complete but two passes for 59 yards. The ground game wasn't much better, garnering but 80 yards...
...Boston is no more amenable to busing then it was three years ago, but after the street-and-beach warfare, the 25 per cent property tax hike and the constant scandals implicating almost every elected city official, Boston voters used the polls to register their disgust more than to signal any change of mood...
Turning to another unorthodox tactic, a Chicago doctor, Seymour Diamond, is treating migraines with biofeedback. Using machines that signal physical changes in the body with beeps or flashing lights, Diamond has been able to train some patients at his headache clinic to raise temperatures in the hand by as much as 10° to 15°. As he explains in his recent book More than Two Aspirin (Follett; $8.95), higher temperatures mean an increased flow of blood there?and presumably a reduction elsewhere, including the head. Almost invariably, he reports, the technique stops headaches. Still another imaginative treatment has been introduced...
...money supply would be inflationary only if the economy were more vigorous than it is. Reporters understandably Interpreted the notice as a special White House statement attacking Burns ?to the Administration's subsequent embarrassment. Says one economic aide: "In no way was this intended to be a signal...