Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about God and a Benevolent Creator, McAffee outlined the debate's format. Both teams were alloted 13 minutes for opening speeches, which were followed by seven-minute rebuttals.Afterwards, there were 15-minute crossexaminations and then four-minute closing statements made by each side. McAffee's kitchen timer buzzed to signal the end of speeches...
...decision to house its 20,000 refugees outside of U.S. borders at Guantanamo Bay has both symbolic and practical significance. On the symbolic front, says Branegan, "the administration wants to send a signal to both Congress and Milosevic that the evacuation and care of the refugees is only a temporary humanitarian measure" -- even if no one has a clue as to how long "temporary" will turn out to be. On the practical front, the choice of Guantanamo Bay makes all the difference. "Legally," says Branegan, "the refugees will not be in the United States." This means that normal immigration rules...
...associates affirm that he is as devoted as ever to the ambitious effort to launch the first new studio in decades, most industry professionals will conclude that the famed filmmaker--by far DreamWorks' most valuable asset--is growing weary. The resurrection of the Amblin label, in their view, could signal that Spielberg is creating an escape vehicle in case the need arises. (The Amblin logo, which last appeared on Zorro, has until now been attached only to non-DreamWorks projects that were in the works before the new company was born...
...current Nature so promising. U.S. and European scientists have shown that patients can learn, by trial and error, to control a type of brain waves called slow cortical potentials. By hooking the patients up to a computer via an electroencephalogram, the researchers taught two ALS sufferers to mentally signal the computer to pick out letters on a screen, spelling out messages. The process is agonizingly slow--the average pace is about two characters a minute--but it should eventually improve. And compared with utter silence, it must seem blistering...
...attack systems, not our own, that give them the jitters. To forestall any Strangelovian mishaps, NORAD intends to create a ?joint confidence center? and has invited Russian officials to join them in mid-December at a scaled-down command post. If computer screens in Russia go dark or mistakenly signal a U.S. missile launch, their team here can flash the word home over a hot line that it?s a false alarm before someone over there hits the attack button. The Russians, especially in light of Kosovo, have been cool to the proposal, but NORAD intends to go ahead...