Word: referents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stiletto hell may well be yet another one of men's devices to subjugate women, but I must refer you to real torture--the Chinese footbinding exhibit at Harvard's own Peabody Museum. High heels don't even come close to that kind of suffering...
...major frustration is coming from the Senate, where even some Republicans view much of the contract with disdain. Henry Waxman, a liberal Democratic Congressman from California, smiles at the mention of that reviled institution (House members generally refer to it with scorn as the Other Body). "The Senate?" Waxman said. "A wonderful place. Very deliberative body. Thoughtful people." Fresh from defeating the balanced-budget amendment, Senate Democrats, backed by some Republicans, are preparing to dismantle the next item from the House G.O.P.'s contract: the line-item veto. Senate leaders hope to take it up this week, but the bill...
...Willie Kane, our graduate board president,told us to refer calls about this to him,"Sprinkler said yesterday...
...been instructed to refer all calls aboutthis to our Director of Athletics Bill Cleary,"Murphy said...
...what exactly is Ms. Rose's gripe with the Hasty Pudding Theatricals? Is it really helpful to refer to us and our audience by such hurtful names as "the entitled," "the bourgeoisie," "the glitterati" and "the so-called cultural elite"? We think not. Still, while we sting from Ms. Rose's caustic, painfully accurate Leninist barbs, we must remind her that the majority of students in attendance were--like herself--seeing the show for free, as the guests of company members, each of whom was given at least one complimentary ticket to the show. Although Ms. Rose seems to imply...