Word: referents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bunting Fellows, who often refer to themselves as "Sister Fellows," present a colloquium each week and often mentor students in Radcliffe Research Partnerships...
...brainwashing to which we refer is the clannish, us-against-them mentality Hepps embraces. Witness her view of gentiles who would marry Jews: "How can [Alan] Dershowitz dare ask Jews to welcome those who are contributing...to their destruction?" If Hepps is so opposed to welcoming non-Jews, one can only imagine (and cringe at) the approach she would favor. At worst, Jews would teach their children that only other Jews are worthy of their love, respect, and admiration--that people who are different are unacceptable and must be excluded. Hepps's views could easily incite the kind of ignorant...
...vast majority of patients today can take the drug without becoming addicted. Quite a few doctors, a large number of their patients and much of the health-care establishment want no part of it. Even specialists in the treatment of pain who prescribe narcotics on a regular basis refer to the drugs as "opiate medications," as if calling them by a different name would counter their shady reputation...
...violate store policy. Longs has reprimanded the pharmacist. Says spokesman Clay Seland: "Our policy is that a pharmacist, if he has moral objections, should refer the prescription to another on-duty pharmacist, or to another Longs, or to a competing pharmacy, if necessary." Collisions between beliefs and access to medication will increase as controversial new drugs surface and unconventional uses for old ones increase--such as those used in physician-assisted suicide. A recent survey of 625 pharmacists showed that 82% of them believe they have the right to refuse to fill a prescription for a drug such...
...that be nice. The weather in New York is a bit on the chilly side for a good portion of the year, to say the least. During the winter, it is a challenge to eat ice cream. (More precisely, I eat frozen yogurt. While I prefer fro yo, I refer to my dairy treat by its more fattening cousin's nickname because it is more mellifluous...