Word: cite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Health officials cite grim statistics as evidence that they are acting out of fiscal need, not cruel disregard for human suffering. In Alameda, roughly 75% of the county's $278 million health-care budget comes from state and federal sources. But that money is drying up. For example, state funds are currently only about one-half of what the county received in 1982. Health administrators argue that rationing is a pointed way of telling legislators they must bear the responsibility for their budgetary decisions...
...junior professors cite the English Department's unusually poor hiring record, saying that it has tenured only one junior professor in the last 25 years...
Katz could offer no sure-fire formula for Hollywood success to aspiring screenwriters, producers and directors in the audience, but he did cite "taste, business acumen, a sense of fairness and awareness of social responsibility" as prerequisites...
...almost infallible measure of the true mystery buff is that when asked to cite his favorite current author, he will respond with some name the general public would never recognize. To the obsessive fan, the big story is rarely the arrival of a new Elmore Leonard or Ed McBain or Dick Francis -- although, as it happens, each of those established commercial writers has a new book out at the moment, all of middling quality. The main event is more likely to be, say, a new Simon Brett or Stuart M. Kaminsky, a new Jonathan Valin or Michael Allegretto. These less...
...editorial writer offended other minority groups when he attempted to project what he perceived to be problems of one group onto all of the minority organizations at Harvard. One must wonder why he wrote that these groups, as a rule, segregate themselves, when he attempts to cite no other examples other than the Asian American Association? Could it be he doesn't know what he's talking about...