Word: signs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Asked if the group was recruiting Harvard students for the campaign, the spokesman said, "We're recruiting everyone"--a sign of the tough battle yet to come...
Likewise, network news shows have confused their trend of becoming more and more predictable with the vaunted state of being objective. NBC News, for one, has launched a new slogan that claims it is the network that is "first and fair." But all of this seems to be a sign that our institutions have become too powerful to have a stake in politics...
...past, companies that were hit by a virus generally kept it quiet. But the computer-sabotage trial in Fort Worth may be a sign that things are changing. Texas is one of 48 states that have passed new laws against computer mischief, and four years ago President Reagan signed a federal law that spelled out harsh penalties for unauthorized tampering with Government computer data. But most statutes were written before viruses surfaced as a major problem, and none mention them by name. In May an organization of programmers called the Software Development Council met in Atlanta to launch a movement...
...women in the Indian state of West Bengal. Teachers use everyday agricultural images to explain a woman's menstrual cycle: seeds are planted during the monsoon, when the soil is soft and moist; cows are inseminated when they produce mucus at the cervix, fertility's telltale sign. Some women who cannot afford pencil or paper dutifully chart their fertile days in simple symbols drawn with burned wood. In Brazil, Sister Cecilia heads an agency that runs 18 N.F.P. centers; she argues that in countries where poverty and illiteracy prevail, N.F.P. is an ideal method of limiting family size. "The ovulation...
...Dukakis have developed into better TV performers than one might have expected. The Vice President still steps on too many of his own applause lines, and cannot shake a penchant for bloopers (last week's premature observance of Pearl Harbor day). But his very awkwardness has become a sign of sincerity, and anger becomes him -- woundedly defending, for instance, his reference to some of his grandchildren as "little brown ones." If Bob Newhart took assertiveness training, he might turn out to be George Bush...