Word: referents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, Leningraders may not get their wish. The Russian parliament must approve the change, and the Supreme Soviet insists that it will have the last word, in this case nyet. Come what may, nothing is likely to change the way the city's dwellers refer to their hometown. They have always called it, simply and affectionately, Peter...
Whatever the shortcomings of the Chamorro government, they pale in comparison with the Sandinistas' shameless pillaging of the country during the two months between their electoral defeat and the day Violeta Barrios de Chamorro took the helm. Nicaraguans refer to those rapacious weeks as "la pinata," after the papier-mache animals that children whack with a stick so they can plunder the candy stuffed inside...
...report] seems to refer to general approval of admissions policies," said Daniel Steiner '54, the University's vice-president and general counsel. He added last week, "The admissions operation at Harvard is the envy of universities across the country...
Sexual assault cases thus fell under the disciplinary board's loose prohibition against "behavior unbecoming a Harvard student." Ad Board members generally interpret this clause to refer to behavior that violates Massachusetts state law, says Janet A. Viggiani, co-chair of the task force...
...refer to this bundle of proposals as reform is to deprive the word of all of its ordinary meanings," SPOA member John Natale said in an interview yesterday. "These proposals haven't done a goddamn thing to help...