Word: referents
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Under the policy, applications from relatives of board members or other government officials must be reviewed by the chairman of ACOG's Compensation and Executive Resources Committee. The chairperson must approve the application or refer it to the full committee, payne said...
...victims' coffins, draped with E.C. flags during a memorial service in Zagreb's cathedral the next evening, were a bleak reminder that peace will not come easily to Yugoslavia after six months of civil war. The federal military was quick to refer to "an unwanted and tragic event," and the Serb- controlled federal government offered requisite apologies. But a shake-up in the top military command solidifying Serb dominance led to fresh worries that the army might not fully support the cease-fire. As the U.N. dispatched observers over the weekend to monitor the fragile peace, the truce appeared...
...infant raises a ticklish diplomatic issue: Are the children of Haitian refugees born on the Guantanamo ("Gitmo") Bay Naval Base entitled to U.S. citizenship? Absolutely not, insists the State Department, explaining that the base is on Cuban territory that the U.S. only leases. General Walls has been instructed to refer to the Haitians as "migrants." More than 50 other Haitian women on the base are pregnant...
GEORGE BUSH hates the R word. Rather than refer to the recession, he likes to talk about the recovery. But skeptical Midwestern business leaders have coined their own R word. When they discuss the state of the economy, they speak sarcastically of Washington's "recovery-ette...
...between the Nazis and Alexandria was the strongpoint at the arid village of El Alamein, 70 miles to the west. A worried Churchill sent Montgomery, an eccentric, bullheaded disciplinarian, to head the Eighth Army. In spite of frantic pleas from London, Monty -- as the Ulsterman asked his soldiers to refer to him -- took his time, rebuilding troop morale and stocking up on ammunition. Churchill wanted him to counterattack by September 1942. Montgomery chose to wait until Oct. 23. By that time the Eighth Army outnumbered Axis forces 195,000 men to 104,000 and had more than 1,000 tanks...