Word: referents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, most groups are fully open to anyone who wishes to voice their opinions--or to read some dirty and politically incorrect jokes. This open environment often results in what Usenetters refer to as flame wars. Some posts vehemently advocate extreme points of view to intentionally instigate a war of four-letter words...
...discussion, which drew a crowd of 65 to the Cronkhite Graduate Center, was billed as a constructive discussion of problems facing victims of abuse. Panelists said many such victims, whom they refer to as survivors, were in the audience...
...Hayden has made a virtual cottage industry out of attacking Soka," said Jeff Ourvan, a spokesperson for the university. "Soka does not use Harvard's logo, it does not refer to itself as an `affiliate' of Harvard, and in fact rarely publicizes the Pacific Basin Research Center...
Lichtenstein has been typecast as "the comic-strip artist," but in fact comic strips take up only an early phase of his work. By 1965 he had stopped basing images on them. He was never to refer to comics again, except now and then by including a parody of one of his own earlier paintings in a parody of an elegant interior -- ah, well, I'm a classic too now, feels funny but that's art-life...
Blix has the right to refer the dispute to the U.N. Security Council, which can punish a nuclear miscreant with sanctions that can range from a reprimand to an embargo, and ultimately to war. Three weeks ago, he told Washington he would begin the process this week if the North didn't start behaving. But the West decided to keep negotiating instead. "We're not talking in terms of a deadline," says an IAEA spokesman. Reason: fear of driving Pyongyang into a corner from which it would fight its way out. The North Koreans have threatened to resume plutonium reprocessing...