Word: nods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Buchanan barks that it isn't fair for "corporate chieftains" to get rich even as the wages of their workers stagnate, he seems to know what Mitchell and the 80 others in the audience are going through. They nod in approval when Buchanan slams President Clinton for lending billions of dollars to Mexico. "Why did we send them $50 billion?" the maverick Republican asks. "Because bonds were coming due, my friends!" And he cuts the air with a karate chop. "So we got the New York bankers--Citibank, Chase Manhattan and Goldman Sachs--off the hook. But guess...
...candidate gets the department's nod, a dossier or "case statement" is prepared, which serves as a collection of a candidate's work and recommendations...
...black men who were there, it was also a moment of profound psychological vindication. In the most heated political and policy debates of recent years, black men have seen themselves cast, sometimes openly, sometimes with a wink and a nod, as the welfare freeloader, the affirmative-action hire, the low end of the bell curve, Willie Horton. Even worse than the stereotypes sometimes are the facts. For black men the average life expectancy is 65, eight years less than for white males. For young black men, the major cause of death is murder. Nearly 1 in every 3 black...
...from the piano stool like Jerry Lee Lewis, head thrust back and howling with pleasure. Beneath his fluid fingers, the keyboard ripples spontaneously, spinning out an endless series of riffs and variations, while his lyrical bassist, Gary Peacock, and elegant drummer, Jack DeJohnette, match him move for move. Heads nod approvingly as the melody is handed off from instrument to instrument, three men doing what they love best: making music with hand and heart...
...like Peter Gomes, succeed where so many others have failed?" Adams asked, in a nod to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who is celebrating his 25th anniversary as minister of Memorial Church this weekend. "How in our existential ambiguity can we sing the Lord's song today...