Word: references
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hotline staffers may also be able to refer special-interest groups--minorities, women, older students, the handicapped--to private organizations for special...
Siegelman and Burger say that one of their most important functions is to refer students to specific counselors at UHS and the Bureau. Burger explains that they "try to make the transition a little easier for people who want to see counselors there," adding that students feel more comfortable using the more official university services when, for example, they can go to UHS and ask to talk to a counselor who will be sensitive to their particular problem...
...Winners should be described as 'estimated winners.' Avoid any reference to 'calling' races or 'declaring' winners. Do not refer to estimates as 'projections.' " How will the computer know what "estimates" to make? Mitofsky, a former Census Bureau statistician, has selected 4,000 key precincts nationwide to show him what is happening in each state. A CBS employee in each of those precincts will phone in results to a bank of computer-terminal operators in a soon-to-be demolished Manhattan warehouse. If this information seems to add up to a clear victory...
...wouldn't matter so much if Fanny contained an intriguing plot or at least a reasonably interesting story line. But Jong doesn't seem to have time for these details. The message, the message. The book's jacket characterizes the insides as "highly entertaining" and "wildly funny"; could that refer to the page-and-a-half roster of eighteenth-century synonyms for "vagina"? Or maybe you consider reading about 12 men who gang-rape an innocent victim wildly funny...
...regime has reached deep into history to adopt analogies for the current struggle with Iran. Government pronouncements constantly refer to the Iranians as "racist Persians." The victory of the Arabs over the Persians at Qadasiya in the 7th century is trumpeted at every turn. Radio and television keep up a drumbeat of patriotic poems set to martial music. The propaganda has had some impact. Many Baghdadis feel that their country is not only waging a war against a traditional enemy that gained control of the Shatt al Arab waterway by exploiting Iraqi weakness, but spearheading a patriotic, nationalist cause...