Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signal, according to some radio operators who have heard it ratcheting over their headsets, sounds like a buzz saw. Others have compared the racket with the sound of an electric mixer or the continuous firing of machine guns. Since July, short-wave radio operators in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere have been tormented by a mysterious radio beam that Western intelligence sources say emanates from what is probably the world's most powerful transmitter: a 2 million-watt Soviet military radar station near Kiev...
...Harm. This was an astonishing exchange between members of the most successful cartel in world history, but by week's end tempers had cooled a bit. It became clear that the pricing rupture probably does not signal the end of OPEC. Yamani denied rumors that Saudi Arabia would quit the cartel, which would surely have meant its ruin. He also played down earlier threats that Saudi Arabia, already by far OPEC's biggest producer (8.4 million bbl. per day), would substantially expand output in order to undermine the higher prices of the opposing eleven. The radical Libyans...
...faint background noise that seemed to be coming evenly from all parts of the sky. When they heard about Dicke's work, however, and compared the frequency and intensity of their radiation with his predictions, the mystery faded. Like radio listeners pulling out of the night the signal of a faraway station, they had picked up the hissing echoes of creation...
Some astronomers and biblical scholars speculate that the first conjunction may have been the signal that started the Magi on their long trek to Israel; the second, the beacon that guided them on their journey. Their reasoning seems to accommodate the timetable of the Christmas story, for in December the two planets came together for a third time, as if on cue, to show the final way to Bethlehem...
...liberal among the U.S. bishops, and his controversial innovation will surely rouse opposition in more conservative dioceses. He had received a guarded message from the Pope's Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., Archbishop Jean Jadot, who wished him well but offered neither approval nor condemnation, a possible signal that Rome was willing to let the idea be tested. Dozier's experiment was derived from the revised rules for the sacrament of Penance, which went into effect in the U.S. earlier this year...