GDI units are sturdier and more powerful than Nod units, but they are more expensive.
In a double dose of bad news for Rangel this week, the New York Times on Thursday endorsed Espaillat, who ran against Rangel in 2012; and Mayor Bill de Blasio pointedly refused to endorse anyone, denying Rangel the powerful mayoral nod that he had enjoyed under former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
I spent a considerable portion of the show fighting a powerful urge to nod off; I bet I wasn't alone.
Television cameras routinely focused on Sonia Gandhi, a scion of the country's most powerful family, as she nodded or frowned during crucial portions of the debate.
Some insiders fear that the recent departure of Mr Hilton may remove a powerful check against further nods to the right, though he remains in constant and influential contact with senior Tories.
The other dark horse at the Baftas is Kajaki, picking up a debut nod, a viscerally powerful British war film based on a real incident in Afghanistan, directed by feature newcomer Paul Katis.
Taking things even further, the lights on the Chrysler ME Four-Twelve supercar concept look like fire shooting from the back of the car, an illuminated nod to the powerful 850-horsepower engine.
Lily Tomlin just earned an Emmy nomination for her work opposite Jane Fonda in Netflix's Grace and Frankie, and she stands a good shot at also earning an Oscar nod for her powerful lead performance in Grandma, Paul Weitz's dramedy that premiered at Sundance.
And in perhaps the 2016 election's most memorable line, Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders tweeted about his debut on Snapchat, writing, "What is this Snapshot thing and why do I only get ten seconds?" Even more surprising, in a nod to how powerful the direct relationship with millennial voters on social media can be, Ted Cruz recently joined our app, Headliner.
It may depend on shifting, clandestine diplomatic alliances, on winking and nodding at normally powerful concerns from civil rights at home to human rights abroad, and on the situational ethics, disinformation and deceptions that war always implies.
