Word: nods
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...make up for their early deficit. Sophomore J.P. O’Connor, the third ranked wrestler in the nation at the 149 lb. weight class, kicked off the meet against No. 20 Mike Roberts. The duo grappled in an intense match, with O’Connor getting the nod 3-2 over Roberts with a crucial penalty point. The victory improved O’Connor’s record to 16-1. Veteran leadership built upon O’Connor’s early win, as seniors Bobby Latessa (157) and Matt Button (165) each won their bouts respectively...
MASSACHUSETTS After Kennedy's nod, Obama has a better chance of scoring a chunk of its 121 delegates...
...Christmas day and is just now going into wide release. The SAG Ensemble prize is nice, but not conclusive. In only five of the past 12 years has the Ensemble award coincided with the top Oscar. (Last year Little Miss Sunshine won at SAG, but The Departed got the nod from the Motion Picture Academy.) The reason for the discrepancy is simple: acting awards are all about acting; movie awards aren't. And in the final Oscar ballot, actors may be the largest voting bloc, but they represent no more than 30% of the Academy membership...
...endorsement speech, Kennedy declared Obama to be nothing less than his brother's rightful heir. His only mention of Hillary Clinton by name was a dutiful nod to the strength, work and dedication that she and John Edwards have shown in the presidential race. But he then proceeded to demolish every attack line that she and her husband have thrown Obama...
...Still, after spending his career trying to digitize, quantify and standardize biology, even Venter recognizes that there may be some aspects of life that simply can't be understood without a nod to what he calls the "mystery and majesty" of the cell. Well before he became involved constructing artificial life, he christened his sailboat with a name that may reveal as much about that awareness as about what he is trying to accomplish: he called it Sorcerer...