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The ad ends with an abbreviated nod to Dole's slogan, "A Better Man for a Better Future," as the narrator asserts that "America deserves better."
A frightening study, recently reported in the New England Journal of Medicine , found that long-haul truck drivers frequently nod off on the road.
Female NOD/LtJ mice (The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME), were maintained on Lab Diet 5K52 (Purina, St Louis, MO), under filter-top barrier conditions.
(John McCain is a hard case, being conventionally brave and forthright but also kind of a cutup; his crack about propping up a dead Alan Greenspan à la Weekend at Bernie's was very fin de siècle .) However, to give an appropriate nod to the underdogs, the TR model also speaks well for the chances of Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, and Alan Keyes (none of whom has an ironic or decadent bone in his body, as far as Chatterbox can see).
It is possible that root-knot nematodes have adapted a portion of Nod factor biology to the induction of feeding sites, rather than nodules, in plants.