Word: referents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...puzzle by pressing delete over and over again. There is something invaluable and indescribable about holding the actual product in your hand (and having it not weigh seventy-five pounds), whipping it out in the middle of the day, on a train ride or a bus ride or to refer to it, cutting an article out when you think it has some certain value to it, or saving it (long enough until it gets crinkly and really yellow) to show your children some of the most amazing events of our time and how the newspapers, how journalists recorded...
Feinstein called the agreement "win-win," which in matters environmental means nobody is happy. Either party can back out of the agreement on two weeks' notice. Like all good negotiators, Hurwitz knows when to ask for more, and the Greens are certain he will. They now refer sarcastically to the preserved tracts as a tree museum...
...Peer counseling and health education groups have seen a great need for anonymous HIV testing," Kasper said. "We have had to consistently refer students to off-campus sites to satisfy their desire for anonymous testing...
...Clinton have usually come in one of three ways. First is his habit of throwing out little verbal grenades that seemingly come from nowhere and fail to detonate. An example of this was his repetition of the charge that in the debates four years ago, Clinton did not refer to George Bush as "Mr. President." While perhaps this will end up swinging the votes of millions, it probably did little more than cause people to scratch their heads in befuddlement...
...city as richly as the novel can, and probably no other setting--sprawling, crisscrossed with relationships, randomly cruel and beautiful--better suits the novel's strengths. Certainly, masterpieces have been written about smaller communities, but the correspondence between city and novelist is unique, and so it is that we refer to Dickens' London, Balzac's Paris, Joyce's Dublin...