Word: nods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...austerity measures, coupled with a bid to broaden and deepen medium-term economic reforms. A communique issued by the party's central committee indicated that the government was loosening the restraints on credit and growth that it imposed only last July. But the statement also made a significant nod to the importance of the market as "a fundamental factor in the disposition of resources." And it went on to endorse speedy reforms in taxation, banking and investment to provide a more sophisticated financial system for the nurturing of sustained growth. But those reforms will take time to bite...
...background check. Russians always ask me why I'm called Natasha. I used to answer that my mother just liked the name, but that was never sufficient. Now I respond immediately that my ancestors used to play violin in Odessa (one ancestor, name unknown, a long time ago); they nod, satisfied...
...They nod their heads if I tell them how competitive it can be to join an extracurricular here, because "comp: short for competition" works very well with their image of a hyperambitious Harvard...
...Yorker has seen a predictable shift in content during this past year, an expected nod to demographics reflected in a pandering to baby-boomer interests. The cartoons, still penned by the old favorites, seem out of place in this new hybrid...
Your stylist will nod sympathetically and ask open questions, and will usually say some weird thing about how your hair is alive and you have to listen...