Word: nods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone is so cautious. Some jurisdictions are expected to ante up quickly to show their support for a new multiracial government. New York City, for one. Once organizations like the A.N.C. give the nod, says Leland Jones, a spokesman for Mayor David Dinkins, the Big Apple could scuttle its prohibitions within 30 to 60 days. That would put managers of $50 billion in New York City pension funds on notice that they can give Nelson Mandela some of the help he is asking...
...unrehearsed, Clinton addressed the country from the Oval Office on Saturday evening. He described the plot against Bush and the efforts to confirm it. Then he announced that he had sent cruise missiles into Baghdad three hours before. He at one point felt it necessary to give a legalistic nod to the action, and so invoked Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which deals with self-defense. But for his real message he reached back to an older and less subtle principle: "From the first days of our Revolution," he said, "American security has depended on the clarity...
...where many survivors found refuge and on whose success Jewish survival now depends. Anti-Zionists, however -- particularly those of the left -- discovered that while physically or morally arming those bent on the annihilation of Israel, they could pose as philo-Semites with a show of anti-Nazism and a nod to the Holocaust...
...working off their winter flab, back home in Candlestick Park a little bit of history was unfolding. Five hundred candidates turned up for open auditions to become the team's new stadium announcer, but none of the dozens of experienced sports broadcasters vying for the plum platform got the nod. Instead the Giants will start a rookie -- a legal secretary from Walnut Creek, California. On opening day, April 5, Sherry Davis will become the first woman ever to be a full-time pro baseball announcer. The pay: $75 a game. Davis, a longtime baseball buff with training in TV-commercial...
...only needs but already has a line-item veto over congressional appropriations; and so on. This trend culminated in President Bush's breathtaking assertion -- never put to the test -- that he could send half a million American troops into battle halfway around the globe without so much as a nod to Congress's constitutional power to "declare...