Word: referents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Unfortunately, an immediate concern is one that mostly is of your own making. I refer, of course, to the Graduate Student meeting of December 15 and the so-called 'minutes' that your volunteer 'reporter' Ms. s. LeVine, has produced," Witzel wrote...
...know enough about these things to refer to governments by their capital cities. When I'm discussing affairs of state, I always refer to Russia as Moscow and France as Paris; the exception I make is Honduras, because even a student of foreign affairs can run into trouble now and then trying to say Tegucigalpa. A high school friend of mine back in Missouri who had once hoped to go into the Foreign Service taught me that it also helps to use the word movement a lot. He still says things like, "Getting any movement from Jefferson City on that...
...base to include many who oppose Yeltsin's reforms, including "national patriots" who yearn for the empire's restoration, hard-line Bolsheviks who idolize Stalin, red capitalists who own casinos in Moscow, and "social-democratic" intellectuals. "Creating that coalition was our first priority, and it is why we never refer to Zyuganov as the Communist candidate," says Valentin Kuptsov, Zyuganov's campaign manager and Communist Party deputy. But "Zyuganov is not merely a tactical nationalist," says James Billington, a Russia scholar and currently the U.S. Librarian of Congress. "He is a believer in a form of nationalism replete with conspiracy...
Storm chasing as an organized enterprise began in 1972, when the Tornado Intercept Project was launched to provide what radar meteorologists refer to as "ground truth." At the time, the NSSL was developing a radar capable of detecting areas of strong rotation inside big tornado-producing storms. The chasers provided visual proof that particular radar signatures did indeed precede the formation of tornadoes. The new radar, Doppler radar, made use of the fact that radio waves shift frequency depending on whether the objects they bounce off are advancing or receding. In this case, the objects that create the Doppler shift...
...some vocal members of the Undergraduate Council to reflect upon the past year, and they'll offer you a litany of accomplishments. They'll rave about the council's greater accountability and improved public image. They'll even puff up with pride and refer to themselves as "The New UC." But don't believe the hype. The council is mired in a cesspool of irrelevance, misguided activism and petty infighting...