Word: signs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frustration in Scalia's tone was one sign of the ambiguous results of Reagan's effort to nudge the high bench to the right. In the term just ended, the Justices sent out mixed signals on everything from privacy rights to criminal law. Consider some of last week's other notable decisions...
...long as the U.S. trade deficit keeps improving, the G-7 strategy will have plenty of supporters. But the dollar could tumble at the first sign that the U.S. trade position is not improving as much as the most recent figures suggest. "We've been on a roll," says Robert Hinton, a vice president and foreign-currency trader at Barclays Bank in Manhattan. "But if the trade figure suddenly goes to $13 billion or $14 billion, you can kiss the strong dollar goodbye...
...midst of its own economic crisis, including a severe housing shortage and growing unemployment, officials fear that public opinion could turn against the emigres. Says Gabor, a teenage Budapest mechanic: "Why should they get jobs and apartments when we don't have enough for ourselves?" With no sign that Rumania intends to rescind its policies in Transylvania, the refugees may soon become not only a foreign policy issue but a domestic political problem for their new hosts as well...
...Basing their charges on a scattershot array of scientific data, union leaders claim that prolonged work in front of a computer screen can impair vision and cause headaches. Some critics say the work may even trigger miscarriages. The unions' campaign to win mandatory VDT safeguards shows every sign of becoming one of organized labor's more determined efforts of the post-industrial age. Some 19 million people, most of them women, currently work at VDTs in the U.S., a number that will more than double by the mid-1990s...
...often local governments fail to consult residents about new projects or do not respond to their complaints. In Van Nuys, a Los Angeles suburb, the state department of corrections quietly installed 54 inmates in a work-furlough program housed in a former health club, leaving the building's sign -- Aerobics and Nautilus Unlimited -- intact. In Berkeley, after James Kelly repeatedly complained to city officials about the offensive behavior of homeless squatters next door, he finally got frustrated enough to take action: he allegedly lobbed Molotov cocktails at his obstreperous neighbors. Kelly, 47, a utility engineer with no previous criminal record...