Word: nod
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...They nod their heads if I tell them how competitive it can be to join an extracurricular here, because "comp: short for competition" works very well with their image of a hyperambitious Harvard...
...Yorker has seen a predictable shift in content during this past year, an expected nod to demographics reflected in a pandering to baby-boomer interests. The cartoons, still penned by the old favorites, seem out of place in this new hybrid...
Your stylist will nod sympathetically and ask open questions, and will usually say some weird thing about how your hair is alive and you have to listen...
...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...