Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though issues of identity perennially form the base of minority agendas, renewed attention upon it may signal the new assertiveness of ethnic groups 25 years after the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The question, frequently a subtle one for outsiders, signifies in many ways the rise of a new understanding of racism and racial insensitivity. However, different groups seek different answers for themselves...
...very bold step--many papers adopted such a policy long ago. It didn't signal the end of sexism at a building which has long been accused of the crime. Clearly, the change is of much less significance than the election of The Crimson's first woman president nearly a decade...
...motorists, which in the U.S. is practically everybody. When California Democrat Glenn Anderson introduced a House resolution opposing any increase last year, he quickly picked up 122 co-sponsors. Anderson plans to offer the nonbinding measure again this week. Says a congressional staffer: "The idea is to send a signal that increasing the gas tax is not the easy...
...turned away from the approaching aircraft, a clear signal that the American pilots were not looking for a fight. To the surprise of the U.S. crews, the Libyan planes shifted abruptly ("jinked," in pilot jargon) to get back on a nose-to-nose lineup with the Americans. The distance between the two pairs of jets was closing at roughly 1,000 m.p.h...
...signal for change came in a hail of machine gunfire inside party headquarters in 1986, when one party chief rubbed out four of his leading Politburo opponents. For 15 days South Yemen blazed with a Communist Party civil war, even forcing most of the country's 5,000 Soviet advisers and their dependents to flee. When it was all over, 5,000 Yemenis lay dead, $500 million worth of Soviet military hardware had been destroyed, and some 65,000 men had fled to North Yemen...