Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signal from Chief Justice Warren Burger, Cox began presenting the case of the university. He underlined immediately the importance of responding to the charge that a white male had been excluded from medical school by "reverse discrimination" favoring disadvantaged minority candidates who were, by traditional admission standards, less qualified than the white. Said Cox: "The answer which the court gives will determine, perhaps for decades, whether members of [racial] minorities are to have meaningful access to higher education." After a few minutes, Justice Byron White interrupted Cox to inquire about the adequacy of the trial record in lower courts...
Back to pass, Brown couldn't find any red jerseys in the clear. Since the offensive line gave him half an hour to throw, Brown just stayed in the pocket, like a pitcher staring in to get a signal that he keeps shaking off, when he spotted Larry Hobdy breaking free over the middle...
...some mutual signal...
...signal caller performed respectably against UMass and Colgate, but those contests were merely preludes to Saturday's solid showing...
...wait! The battle of machines is escalating. In Virginia, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. is testing for 90 days a service named "Dial-a-Busy." A patron who wants no calls dials a number, which activates equipment that sounds a fake busy signal if someone phones. To have the buzz turned off, the subscriber dials the special number again. If the test works out, the service will probably be expanded, providing privacy seekers with an alternative to disconnecting their phones...