Search Details

Word: referents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...paying the price, I mean in terms of being able to influence the course of events. I mean, every time I make a speech, or every time I write a book, inevitably the reviewers refer to the "disgraced former President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Richard Nixon: Paying The Price | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...ethnic club and AAA leaders are quick to assert the independence of Asian ethnic clubs from AAA. While students and administrators refer to AAA as the "umbrella group" for all Asian clubs, that is not the case, says Cheng. "AAA is independent with a different mandate than [other ethnic clubs have...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Staying Away From the Political Fray | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...that new nation is still -- deliberately -- undefined. But one phrase is firmly inked in: "group rights," De Klerk's code name for the preservation of white privilege. In South Africa, when whites talk about "minority rights" they mean the protection of white power and wealth, and when they refer to "the tyranny of the majority" they mean black rule. De Klerk's so-called multiracial state does not denote racial integration but a system in which each race will have its own rights and freedoms -- one of those being the right to live in a white enclave. Just as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cautious Architect of a Cloudy Future | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

Your readers might be interested in a few facts and figures concerning income distribution which demonstrate how different the reality of American society is from the impressions on which most contemporary public discourse is based. The following figures refer to 1987, but very little has changed since then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Ec 10 Means in Human Terms | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...favorite letters in Ithaca, N.Y., thesedays are B.J., and they don't refer to rock starBilly Joel. Center Bernard Jackson lost 30 poundsduring the course of the non-Ivy schedule lastyear and led a resurgent Cornell team tosix wins in its final eight games, including atwo-game sweep of Penn...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: The Long Road to The Ivy Title... | 1/5/1990 | See Source »

Previous | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | Next