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...infant raises a ticklish diplomatic issue: Are the children of Haitian refugees born on the Guantanamo ("Gitmo") Bay Naval Base entitled to U.S. citizenship? Absolutely not, insists the State Department, explaining that the base is on Cuban territory that the U.S. only leases. General Walls has been instructed to refer to the Haitians as "migrants." More than 50 other Haitian women on the base are pregnant...
GEORGE BUSH hates the R word. Rather than refer to the recession, he likes to talk about the recovery. But skeptical Midwestern business leaders have coined their own R word. When they discuss the state of the economy, they speak sarcastically of Washington's "recovery-ette...
...between the Nazis and Alexandria was the strongpoint at the arid village of El Alamein, 70 miles to the west. A worried Churchill sent Montgomery, an eccentric, bullheaded disciplinarian, to head the Eighth Army. In spite of frantic pleas from London, Monty -- as the Ulsterman asked his soldiers to refer to him -- took his time, rebuilding troop morale and stocking up on ammunition. Churchill wanted him to counterattack by September 1942. Montgomery chose to wait until Oct. 23. By that time the Eighth Army outnumbered Axis forces 195,000 men to 104,000 and had more than 1,000 tanks...
...called books), narrator can also be a tricky word because the third-person voice doesn't necessarily have to be the one telling the story all the time. Speaker is a good substitute. Persona works in poems. But when there are a lot of characters, it's best to refer to everyone by name, but only if you make sure to explain how the naming of people functions in the text...
Companies as well as federal and state programs should encourage doctors to refer those patients who do not need the full range of hospital services to less costly outpatient clinics. Simple fractures, for example, often can be treated in this way. Pay doctors and hospitals less for clearly wasteful practices...