Word: warne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highway is now acquiring such symbols as the skidding car, the bicycle and the diagonal slash that means "Don't." In addition, the new signs use a color code: red to prohibit, yellow to warn, green to permit movement, blue for highway services, brown for scenic suggestions. Shapes, too, are being standardized: a pennant for no passing, a circle for railroad crossings, a diamond for potential hazards...
...goods abroad. By agreeing to devalue the dollar before he won basic concessions on trade-aside from short-term liberalization by the Europeans for the benefit of vote-heavy U.S. farmers -Nixon gave up an important bargaining chip. The Administration's strategy now appears to be to warn the Europeans that unless they give in more on trade, Congress may not agree to devalue the dollar. The Europeans say that the matter is academic, since the value of the dollar is now being set not in Washington but in the world's money markets...
...Edward Heath has spoken acidly of Washington's role in the monetary crisis; he scoffs that the U.S. believes it still has the West on a leash. More than any of his NATO allies, Heath is suspicious of Soviet moves toward detente in Europe. At Bermuda, he will warn Nixon not to get trapped into any unintentional commitments in Moscow on reduction of NATO and Warsaw Pact troop levels; he may also ask Nixon's aid in his attempts to get France back into the European defense effort. Nixon will be pleased, however, to find that Heath believes...
Neatest reach for historical verisimilitude: Robbins, who in a flashback has Hardeman telephone Walter Reuther in 1937 to warn him that the Battle of the Overpass (in which auto company goons beat up unsuspecting union organizers) is about to occur. · John Skow
...administrators moved quickly to warn those who had entered the building that they would be suspended if they did not leave Hopkins House immediately. Eleven students decided to stay and face temporary suspension. Their cases will be considered Monday by the B.C. University Conduct Board...