Word: nods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton is accompanied by three or four state police, who nod politely as he explains how the long-term future of Medicare could affect the upcoming school-board race in Calhoun County. Along the route, homeowners rush out, grab their daughters off porch gliders and drag them inside...
...street pushes neither the fashion nor the mental-health envelope in Greenwich Village. There is universal love for Gigante's late mother Yolanda. "She was cooking, cooking, all the time cooking," says a neighbor. "She'd give me a hug and talk in Italian, and I'd just nod. I'm Jewish." Asked for her name, she slowly backs away. "No," she says. "They might kill...
...Clintons deserve a lot of credit for how normally daughter CHELSEA has turned out despite her fishbowl upbringing, but her Secret Service detail also deserves a nod. CHELSEA is very sensible in cooperating with her agents, and in turn they cut her enough slack so she can manage a normal teenage life, like strolling with a date out of their earshot. The agents have been specially trained to work with her age group, and "It works really well," says a White House insider. So after Mom and Dad finish moving her in, maybe Stanford will turn...
ATLANTA: Eager to reverse its image as a union heavy out of sync with the national need for a revival of the 3Rs, the National Education Association is considering a proposal to streamline the process for giving bad teachers the boot by giving the nod at last to teacher peer reviews. In place for more than 10 years in some Ohio cities not represented by America's largest teacher's union, peer reviews allow teachers in good standing to work with all new teachers and with tenured teachers not making the grade, recommending dismissals. The NEA has long opposed...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: With a perfunctory nod to the wonders of scientific exploration, President Clinton stuck to his guns, announcing that he would continue the moratorium on federal funding for research into human cloning, while pushing for a legislative ban. That's the advice of his National Biothics Advisory Commission, which keeping the federal ban in place while discouraging (but not making illegal) private research on human embryos. OK, but few scientists are seriously pushing for cloning humans. The hard part? Determining just how far the research on human embryos should go. After all, a lot of folks passionately believe that...