Word: nods
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...cream sandwiches, to be exact, constructed and dispensed by a roving Los Angeles food truck that goes by the nom de glace Coolhaus - a nod to Rem Koolhaas, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect who designed Seattle's futuristic glass-and-steel Central Library. Coolhaus is not your average ice cream truck. For one, it doesn't play annoying, repetitive jingles. It is a tricked-out former postal wagon with a Barbie-pink custom roof, shiny wheel rims (acquired at an auto-body shop in East L.A.) and lots of photos of famous buildings, including Louis Kahn's concrete-heavy Salk...
...said, “is stand alone among your peers and superior officers. To stick your neck out after discussion becomes consensus, and consensus ossifies into groupthink.” And while Harvard’s commencement speaker, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, did nod briefly in his speech to the class of 2009 as “future intellectual leaders,” in that very same breath he asked them to “join” in his task-at-hand, not to lead...
...Spotify is going ahead with its plan to launch the application before the official O.K. from Apple is either a sign of supreme confidence or savvy publicity. "Spotify are masters of utilizing the Web to drive buzz and consumer interest," says analyst Mulligan. If the company does get the nod from Apple, it will be just the first step in the company's quest to get the world streaming. There's also a Google-based application for non-Apple phones in prototype and a plan to launch the regular Web-based application in the U.S. before...
...Could you write rejections for these?" My boss asks. "I just don't think they're for us." I nod. It?...
Acting without informing the U.S., Iraqi troops on Tuesday, July 28, seized control of a camp of Iranian exiles ferociously opposed to the regime in Tehran. It was the most significant operation undertaken by Baghdad since U.S. troops withdrew from the cities last month and is most likely a nod to Iran's ayatullahs, who brand the group as terrorists, as does the U.S. Yet in the convoluted politics of the region, the U.S., despite having tagged the organization on its terrorist list, had been a sort of guarantor of the safety of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) because...