Word: nods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fast!" he urged. Moynihan, who was shopping around a dramatic proposal, had just witnessed a rare moment in Washington--the possibility of bipartisan, let's-jump-off-together risk taking. Senate majority leader Dole had mumbled something positive about the idea; if the White House, too, gave it a nod, the seemingly intractable deadlock over how best to balance the federal budget could be broken; sharp cuts in Medicare and Medicaid would be avoided; and both Republicans and Democrats might get away with milking large amounts of cash from the most sacred of cows: Social Security...
...House Speaker Charles Flaherty told the Legislature's Taxation Committee that any such nod to the business community must be tied to a promise from companies that they won't move away...
...problem with a government that gives great respect to the material and virtually no respect to the spiritual (not even a perfunctory nod in the direction of a higher being) is that it leaves out spiritual concerns that form a huge part of so many people's lives...
...almost hear the inmates nod when Chapman sings about guys who "hang around me like a bad debt." The convicts cheer when a Chapman woman takes control--when one announces to a boozing boyfriend, "I'm gonna take off my kid gloves/ Put on some boxing gloves/ And knock the living daylights out of you." But she's not all whine and neurosis; the set traces an arc of anger, resolve and transfiguration. As Chapman explains to the prisoners, with an I've-been-saved smile in her voice, she finally did find true love--with a prison doctor...
...recent years, in a nod to modernity and political correctness, the pageant has emphasized the contestants' dedication to social betterment. And they'd better be dedicated; each is required to speak on a do-good theme--a "platform" that will serve as her stump speech should she win the crown. This week's wannabes will plump for such causes as aging with dignity (Miss Hawaii), youth-violence intervention (Maine), alternatives to underage drinking (Nebraska), organ-tissue donation (Texas) and motivating at-risk children through music (Alabama). Miss California will speak in favor of sexual abstinence...