Word: signals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, is big news on numerous fronts. There's the money, of course. He is offering $5 billion for a company whose shares fetched just $3 billion before word of his bid leaked out on May 1. Also important is the signal that he's very serious about his Fox Business Channel, which is due to launch later this year and would get a big boost from the Journal--and Dow Jones--brand...
...Fatah's armed brigades. The fundamentalist leaders of Hamas, on the other hand, have a more protective view of women and at first were reluctant to sacrifice them. But the Riyashi video, broadcast on Hamas' TV station and produced by Hamas (it can be viewed on YouTube), may signal that the group is using Riyashi's martyrdom to advertise for new female volunteers. In Gaza on April 26, four hooded women in military fatigues announced to the press that they were suicide bombers and vowed, "We will turn Gaza into the Israelis' graveyard if they invade...
...Rice called the meeting an "opportunity to signal strong support" for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but many of Iraq's neighbors see the Maliki government as part of the problem. Although al-Maliki came to office through democratic elections and is supported by Washington, Arab governments in Sunni Muslim countries see the Shi'ite prime minister as an ally of Iran who is helping Tehran extend its influence in Iraq. "Al-Maliki is not representing all of Iraq's people," an Arab diplomat told TIME on the sidelines of the conference. "He is too Iranian. He's serving...
...more thing on his side: his age. Damaged central-nervous-system cells may not regrow readily, but the ones that survive a trauma can become more efficient, changing what is known as their central state of excitability--or the threshold at which even a sputtering signal can send them into action. "I don't think any scientist would dispute that a younger body is more plastic in this way," says Harkema...
...tragedy fit a generation used to living in public through YouTube and social-networking sites. Now members of that generation were killing, dying and mourning in public. When graduate student Jamal Albarghouti saw police drawing guns near Norris Hall, he took out his camera phone and--in the signal impulse of the information-sharing age--ran toward the scene...