Was it the flying scud missiles or the sirens that wailed nearly hourly early on in the war, signaling possible incoming chemical or biological weapons?
In 1950, fearing that the Korean War signaled the start of another world war, Oskar Rohr sent his son to Bogotá, Colombia, where an aunt had found refuge.
The 1964 Tokyo Games, held less than 20 years after Japan's defeat in the second world war, signalled the country's emergence from the shadow of militarist misadventure and the start of a period of rapid economic growth.
In the last year, however, industrial production has fallen 13percentt, its deepest downturn since the end of World War; Signals that a recession is ending: This chart shows industrial production during the last seven recessions, and in the following six months.
Democratic presidential candidates offered a near-unified assault today on President Bush's credibility in his handling of the Iraq war, signaling a shift in the political winds by aggressively invoking arguments most had shunned since the fall of Baghdad.
Instead, the end of the war signaled the death of an empire, from Indochina to Algeria, and the relentless decay of the Fourth Republic while the world became English with an American accent.
Athens' defeat in the Peloponnesian War signaled the end of Old Comedy, because a sense of disillusionment with the heroes and gods who had played a prominent role in Old Comedy became marked.
But many intellectuals and officials say they wonder if this war signals a fundamental change in the Middle East, in which anger is beginning to coalesce behind a cause -- Arab and Muslim unity -- above loyalty to Jordan, or any other country, and the policies of its leaders.
