Word: referents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...give Hong Kong people a greater voice in choosing their legislators contravene "secret" agreements with Britain on Hong Kong's political shape both before and after 1997. Patten retaliated by releasing the diplomatic traffic that China claimed proved its point. A letter from Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd did refer to an "agreement in principle" about electoral arrangements. But it also mentioned a number of "details" that had to be worked out. Because those negotiations failed, Britain says there was no such deal. Agreed the Hong Kong Standard in a front-page editorial: "There are very few people who would argue...
Even before Clinton's victory, the British media displayed what some called an overtly pro-Clinton stance, daring to refer to the Democratic nominee as "President Clinton" on Monday...
...mean, I don't think any of this is conscious. I've noticed the tendency to refer to Naomi Wolf, me and Gloria Steinem as the quote-unquote yuppie feminists. It's this phenomenon where two or three women are picked out as feminist spokespeople, are elevated and then trashed in hopes that 'well, we've attacked them, gotten them out of the way, so feminism itself can be discredited...
Demographers refer to such collisions between rising demand and diminishing resources as "train wrecks." As the world adds new billions of people in ever shorter periods, such potential conflicts happen almost everywhere. With most of the world's good land already under plow, a population of 11 billion human beings would probably have to make do with less than half the arable land per capita that exists today. That would set the stage for disaster, as farmers stripped nutrients from the soil, exacerbated erosion and gobbled up water and wild lands...
Henaghan refused to comment yesterday. "We'vebeen told to refer all questions about specificincidents to Chief Johnson," he said...