Word: nods
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...Connor (157 lbs), who earned his second All-American nod last year, and Caputo (184), who earned the distinction in 2007, will be joined by 12 underclassmen, led by sophomore standout Corey Jantzen (141), who joined O’Connor as an NCAA qualifier last spring...
...will go to someone else: A Duncan nod could risk upsetting Chicago mayor Richard Daley, a vocal advocate of the Chicago schools' chief...
...nod to the formality of the occasion journalists and staff alike shed the jeans they'd been living in through the final weeks of the campaign and ironed out their wrinkled suits and skirts. The seating was assigned, with the names of news agencies scrawled on pieces of paper and taped to the backs of chairs, a first for the Obama organization. Reporters asked one another before hand if it would be appropriate to type notes as he spoke, as we always did when he was just a candidate. The answer quickly became clear: not a single computer remained...
...snuck in references to people we know. There are traces of people that I knew from Harvard,” she said. One such example is the last name of her freshman year roommate, which now serves as one of the names of a law firm in the show.Another nod to the real Harvard are the names of the three admissions officers who accept Elle into Harvard Law—Pforzheimer, Lowell, and Winthrop.The event also took on a lighter tone. Members of The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, dressed in drag as sorority sisters and Elle Woods, tested their Elle (David...
...have had solid records of improving test scores over the past six years have been put on probation and are threatened with losing funding if they continue to fall short of these unreasonable standards. Worse, the law affects each state differently and punishes those with rigorous exams. In a nod to states’ rights, the law was written to allow each state to set its own testing standards. As a result, states with relatively easy proficiency tests, such as Wisconsin or Mississippi, had few schools that failed to meet testing standards. States that were hardest hit were those with...