Word: referents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House and the Pentagon, which came into full bloom when Clinton clashed with Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell on the gay issue. "Not since Carter has a President been so disliked by the military," said a Joint Chiefs staff officer. Uniformed personnel ranging from privates to generals routinely refer to their Commander in Chief as "Slick Willy" and "Draft Dodger." Beyond the financial affronts like Clinton's proposed government pay freeze, which will save $18 billion in military spending, the ranks are rife with bogus stories that Clinton forbids officers to wear their uniforms in the White House...
Some successful boomer churches are shrines to secular movements, particularly the 12-step programs modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous. "We refer to ourselves as wounded healers," says Minister Mike Matoin of Unity in Chicago, himself a former bellhop, bouncer, cabdriver, and child of an alcoholic. "A lot of baby boomers can relate to us. We've been through our / own recovery, and we're not on a pedestal." If a spiritual search is going on, it is for an inner child. In a room remarkably empty of religious paraphernalia, on a riser, behind the pulpit, an enormous teddy bear sits...
...will have a far greater impact on the American economy than all the Clinton domestic programs combined. Aid to . . . Russia is an investment in peace." As economics has become the 1990s equivalent of arms control, so the President's informal campaign slogan -- "It's the economy, stupid" -- may now refer as much to Russia's as to America...
...last AAA general meeting, we proposed an amendment to the AAA constitution requiring the steering committee to refer all political issues to the general membership for discussion and a formal vote. Specifically, our amendment requires every political motion to receive a two-thirds majority of a quorum of two-thirds of AAA's general membership in order to pass as an "official position" of AAA. We were reasonable enough, moreover, to include an "emergency powers" clause that grants the steering committee the discretion to issue public statements on behalf of AAA in response to news-breaking events--like Mans-field...
...driving escort dispatchers do not refer calls to Safety Walk unless both dispatchers consider the distance to be manageable by foot. Safety Walk dispatchers also take into consideration whether we have a walking team nearby, and we almost always...