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Word: nod (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creating frost-inhibiting bacteria, and set about producing them by gene- splicing techniques. For meaningful experiments, enough of the bacteria had to be sprayed on test plants to overwhelm the natural variety. But the release into the environment of any genetically engineered microbes in those days required the nod of the National Institutes of Health recombinant-DNA committee,* which in 1983 approved the Berkeley scientists' proposal to conduct their test at a tiny potato patch near the city of Tulelake in Northern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fighting the Biotech Wars | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...didn't talk about the games anymore. We didn't even nod to each other confidently. We'd had enough...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: ...It Had Become Pathetic | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson: How could you completely dismiss this major story on Monday, and dismiss it with a cursory nod on Tuesday? Were your reporters asleep? Or is it that hypocrisy and injustice like this go on all the time in the council and you simply chose to leave it unreported? Matt Drummy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

Keith Webster (second in scoring with 11.7 ppg) and Captain Pat Smith will likely get the nod at the guard spots for Harvard...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Cagers Headed for One Devil of a Time | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

Three goaltenders battle for the starting nod--it will most likely go to Mark Hoppe, who started 14 games last season...

Author: By Matthew A. Saal, | Title: Paint It Crimson | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

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