Word: nods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rotterdam Bank: "There is a general feeling that things are working for the best in the U.S. That confidence has a lot to do with Reagan's cowboy image and strong personality." Even European government officials, who have been battling to bolster their currencies, give Reagan a grudging nod. Italian Treasury Minister Beniamino Andreatta attributes the dollar's rise to the "coherence and very strong new credibility of the American government." But that credibility could crumble quickly at the first signs of an easing in the war on inflation...
...heavy allegory was there for all to brood upon. As Rezanov succumbed on stage, a narrator said: "He tried to unite Russia and America; the adventure was not successful." With a nod to the prostrate body, he added: "Thanks for trying...
...laws and the priority of other cases caused the long delay in following through on Mulcahy's information. But some Justice officials suggest that CIA agents had impeded faster action. One prosecutor told TIME, "When you deal with the CIA everything is done with a wink and a nod. And there was a lot of winking and nodding going...
...performances during the two-week contest in Fort Worth were strictly center court. Impressed by his emotionally spare, but powerful and nearly flawless technique, the eleven-member international jury gave the Paris-born, Brooklyn-raised musician the nod over 38 other entrants. A victory on the high Cs is nothing new to Schub-in 1974 he won the Naumburg competition and three years later the Avery Fisher Prize-but the Van Cliburn win carries a $ 12,000 cash award, a recording contract and two years of solo and concerto appearances...
...Texas and told him to take charge. Rostenkowski did, but only after snatching the gavel away from embarrassed Majority Leader Carl Albert. Two years later, Albert, then Speaker, vetoed Rostenkowski's nomination as majority whip. Rostenkowsi's golf buddy Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts got the nod instead and went on to become Speaker. Last November the whip's position was again within Rostenkowski's reach, but O'Neill needed a staunch loyalist to chair Ways and Means. Though a stranger to the fine points of the tax code, Mayor Daley...