Word: nods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shamir gets the nod...
...fashioned Hollywood weepies demanded that the audience surrender to the prejudices of gender: that women were delicate, noble creatures, emotional yearlings, easy prey for the stronger, predatory male. Cross Creek is an inspirational weepie, asking the viewer to nod off with it into a dream of American rural purity. There, a backwoods shack just has to house a community of decent souls, and poverty is God's way of saying "Trust to your own resources," and folks' closeness to the land makes them more sensitive to the changing seasons of the heart. These propositions may be true...
...members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, but for the favor of the five men who run the five major political machines within the party. Each machine has its own leader, its own views and its own funds. Feuding is chronic. Nakasone won only after he had got the nod from former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, who remains the party's mightiest power-broker even though he is now on trial for accepting $2 million in bribes...
Foreign businessmen must be wary of mistaking Japanese politeness for agreement. A Japanese negotiator may frequently nod and say "hai" (yes) during talks. But the word is also used to signify that the conversation is being followed, much like the English "uh-huh," or "I see." So yes is not always...
While Volcker was surprised at the timing, he was expecting the nod, and so was Wall Street. The stock market, which not long ago dropped sharply when it seemed that Volcker might be replaced, resumed its happy rise last week. Spurred in part by the growing conviction that the Fed Chairman's job was safe, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 46 points, its second largest weekly gain this year, and reached a record high of 1242.19. Said New York Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn: "Volcker's monetary policy has been criticized by almost everybody and is therefore probably...