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coconut or coconut head `noun, derogatory slang a black person who adopts white cultural characteristics .. The metaphor is based on the coconut's brown exterior and white interior.
John McCain , R-Ariz., is threatening NBC with hostile legislation or obstruction of its affiliates' license renewals unless NBC adopts the new sex-and-violence ratings system.
The final rule adopts a new standard for foreign participation in the U.S. satellite services market consistent with the United States' obligation under the World Trade Organization Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services (Agreement).
Finally, the nascent carbon chain adopts different folding patterns after it leaves the PKS, and ‘tailoring’ enzymes can then add sugars or other chemical groups to it at many alternative positions, enabled by the pattern of chemical reactivity built into the polyketide by the PKS.
Then we take a similar journey with Jackie (Watson), who, denied a proper childhood and family life, pines away in foreign capitals, behaves with increasing waywardness and vulgarity (she adopts a bogus Continental accent), and expires in near solitude, with only her loyal sister to remind her of God's love.