Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brusquely efficient cop. The precise and credible-sounding veteran of the CIA and FBI. All contented with their anonymity only a year ago, they now slipped one by one into a central seat facing seven U.S. Senators ranged along a green-felt-covered table. They braced as the red signal lights of the television cameras blinked on - and then they be came instant principals in a fateful na tional drama in which the political survival of the President is at stake...
...theft and one of conspiracy. But since the case had never reached the jury, the two were not declared innocent by acquittal, nor had they been vindicated by their defense based on the assertion of the people's right to know. Even so, the victory was so signal that as Byrne rose to leave the bench in U.S. district court in Los Angeles, the assemblage in the crowded courtroom rose, applauded and cheered him. Patricia Ellsberg rushed over to her stunned husband and asked plaintively: "Haven't you got a kiss for your girl?" (He had.) Defense Counsel...
...coming. Chapin had amply shown that he could run a smooth operation, and that it was possible to have aristocratic savoir-faire without resorting to the autocratic methods of former Met Manager Rudolf Bing. As many a diva has learned, Chapin's tact and graciousness do not signal a relaxed will. He pushed hard and successfully for the company's new Mini-Met, devoted to intimate or experimental operas in small halls with mostly young casts. To the Met staff's evident joy, he preserved and deepened the aura of good will between management and unions fostered...
...sellers of odd lots of stock (fewer than 100 shares), Eisen figured, were discriminated against in the same manner. He brought a class action on behalf of all who had paid the inflated fees-a total that has now reached 6,000,000 people-and he won a signal victory. Smaller class actions had long been common, but in Eisen's case a U.S. court of appeals held for the first time that federal rules governing such suits should not be applied so rigidly as to automatically preclude the huge and diffuse group that Eisen represented. Since then, mass...
...replacement of Bennett, who has consistently backed corporate managements in proxy fights involving Harvard's investments, may signal a change toward more liberal attitudes on shareholder responsibility...