Word: referents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reform and opening-up endeavor is an embodiment and a creative development of the Chinese spirit of constantly striving for self-perfection and renovation in modern times. We refer to our reform and opening-up as socialist reform and opening-up, because they constitute the process of self-improvement and development of the socialist system in China. The practice in [the last] 20 years has eloquently proved rather that we are right in direction, firm in conviction, steady in our steps and gradual in our approach when carrying out the reform and opening-up, and we have achieved tremendous successes...
...there was another structure Gehry wanted to refer to--the mother ship, as it were: Frank Lloyd Wright's original Guggenheim on Fifth Avenue, with its great empty center wound about by the spiral of exhibition ramp. Obviously that couldn't be repeated (it is, in any case, a curator's nightmare), but like the Bilbaino industrial metaphor, it could be evoked...
Your cover story on Buddhism was a colossal disappointment. You treated the subject as just another cult, a Church of Scientology or a Heaven's Gate. Would you refer to the Pope as Sophia Loren's confessor or hold up Barbra Streisand as a shining example of Judaism? MURRAY SILVER JR. Atlanta...
Jiang: I would like to know what you refer to specifically as a gesture. We have made it clear that we respect human rights. I studied world history and your War of Independence. I read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address about your Civil War. It was the sacred mission of the U.S. to liberate slaves in your country. In Tibet, after the Dalai Lama left the country [in 1950], we have fundamentally resolved the problem of slavery there. I believe the American people should be happy to see that...
...school administrators continued to operate as if the decree had never been signed, an intransigence that resulted in a cascade of increasingly punitive--and expensive--court orders. Meanwhile, the school system continued to refer an ever greater number of kids for the special-education programs. Not only are 17% of the system's children now in such programs, but a disproportionate share have been assigned to Intensity IV and V programs--typically the most expensive, often requiring separate classrooms and separate schools...