Word: nods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this gruff, mumbling figure of authority and mystery? No one could be certain. The President himself confessed, "I didn't understand him at meetings . . . I'd just nod my head, but I didn't know what he was actually saying." Joseph Persico has better hearing than Ronald Reagan, and a keener eye for biographical detail...
...inside no outright cheers greeted Gorbachev's shape-up course. Legislators adopted the program by a vote of 333 to 12 (with 34 abstentions) but remained unsure as to exactly what the plan would accomplish. Still, the scheme's preamble sets a clear objective. While making a token half-nod to Marx -- "The transition to the market does not contradict the socialist choice of our people" -- it recites a litany of woes and concludes, "The whole world experience has proved the vitality and efficiency of the market economy...
...should tell Congress and the President that "lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on our part," not simply nod our heads and side with cynical election-year tactics...
Behind the scenes, Restic will be tinkering,adjusting, still searching for the skill positioncombinations that will bring him an Ivy title.Andy Bell and Rodney Taylor will start at runningback and split end, respectively, but theirbackups will press them for playing time.Lazarre-White has earned the starting nod forgood, but how often he will take to the airremains to be seen...
Some in Washington have argued that Glaspie's enunciation of U.S. policy might have seemed a nod and a wink in the Middle East style, giving a green light to Iraqi action. But Saddam indicated that he had already formed a judgment on the limits of U.S. power. "The nature of American society," he told her, "makes it impossible for the U.S. to bear tens of thousands of casualties in one battle...