Word: referents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some refer to her childhood in Antigua, an island in the West Indies...
...requires that reports be made of all civil restraining orders and criminal domestic violence offenses, and that judges refer to them when issuing restraining orders. If the records show multiple previous offenses by the defendant, the judge is required to notify law enforcement officials...
Cynics in Kenya refer to President Daniel arap Moi's mining interests as "That's mine! That's mine! And that's mine! . . ." Expatriate businessmen estimate that wealthy Nigerians have enough money in personal deposits abroad to pay off the country's entire foreign debt, more than $36 billion. Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko has a personal fortune that has been estimated from $4 billion to $6 billion, not far below the level of the country's external debt. He has isolated himself from his people -- and from gathering political unrest -- aboard a luxury yacht that cruises the Zaire...
Long before the demise of the Soviet Union, Russians learned to dismiss as absurd the civil defense training courses imposed on them at school and work. They refer to the courses as grob, taken from the first two letters of the words for civil defense -- grazhdanskaya oborona. Translation of grob: coffin. The cynicism was justified. In 1988 an accidental air-raid alert in the industrial city of Perm sent hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for safety. As a test of civil defense, the accident proved a disaster. Perm residents found many shelters locked, flooded or infested with mosquitoes...
...documents, obtained by The Crimson under the Freedom of Information act, include several mentions of Rudenstine and refer to activity the Department of Justice regards as tuition price-fixing...