Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...track every Soviet ship within 300 miles of a U.S. naval formation. Since each armada is able to intercept the other's radio transmissions, all important messages are scrambled before being sent. But there have been times when the two sides have communicated with each other, usually using signal lights or flag hoists. In one exchange, a Soviet ship signaled: "Where is Kitty Hawk?" Pausing slightly, the frigate Fanning flashed back: "Kitty Hawk is a small town in North Carolina...
...possible Energy Action bid for equal time that, if successful, could have the strongest effect on this issue, and on Mobil's and other future television advertising. Mobil's strong corporate issue-oriented commercials may signal the beginning of a new kind of television advertising, a packaging of philosophy as well as products. If the stations are required under the Fairness Doctrine to grant opposition groups equal time, however, they may think twice about letting such an advertising trend spread. Otherwise, America may see a new sophistication in advertising, a more complex propaganda. Consumer groups could find themselves protecting society...
...implement the law, and then there's an injunction, it's a confusing signal. We tell the children they can pray on Monday, and then two days later they can't because a bunch of adults can't make up their minds," Lannon said...
Sakharov's banishment may be the signal for an intensification of a domestic crackdown that has paralleled the hardening of Soviet foreign policy. According to a report by Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization, more than 40 Soviet dissidents have been arrested or tried in the past three months. These have included religious leaders, Jewish "refuseniks" and activists for the rights of such national groups as the Ukrainians and the Lithuanians. Two weeks ago, Father Dmitri Dudko, 57, was arrested and imprisoned in Moscow's Lubyanka Prison. As revered a figure among Russian Orthodox Christians...
...their own privacy, possibly judging that loneliness is worse. In the past ten or twelve years, everything has tumbled out of the closet in a heap. Some homosexuals parade themselves like walking billboards, the placement of the keys and handkerchiefs in their back pockets acting as a semaphore to signal the specific secrets of their sexual tastes...