Word: nods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PROPOSAL] Develop the Peace Corps Clinton, in nod to J.F.K., wants to nearly double the Peace Corps to 10,000 volunteers...
With every ice-gouging jump, every painted-on smile and every slip-and-slide wipeout broadcast into our homes on an incessant beam, we all know how difficult it is to become a world-class figure skater. We nod knowingly when commentators talk about turnout of feet and good position in camels...
Both Dent and McKay made it through the labyrinthine tenure process, from the departmental to the Faculty level, finally receiving the nod of the University's president himself--before turning down the offer...
...with last year's selection, AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho, our choice is less a nod to one striking year than an acknowledgment of the culmination of an ongoing process. Intel's chips have been around for nearly three decades, but 1997 was the year Grove's life's work reached full flower. It was the year cell phones, Websites and E-mail became ubiquitous, the year the global economy, for good and ill, became an undeniable reality. Intel chips hum at the center of everything from coffee machines to Hollywood's special effects to Wall Street's trading desks...
...through more standards and new tunes, pausing only once to allow the leader to introduce his band. In fact, Dylan rarely even altered his facial expression, basically maintaining a deadpan scowl for the duration of the performance. Even his cues to the band were minimal, with only a stiff nod to the drummer signifying the end of a tune...