Word: referents
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...official Ad Board documents refer to the requirement as “supporting information”—a change of phrasing which, critics say, is an attempt to make the policy sound “watered down...
Although some of the more specific travel questions—like how to get discounts on European travel passes—temporarily baffled the Let’s Go researchers, they said they were able to refer to Let’s Go guidebooks they had on hand...
...death by a thousand strokes of the pen," contends Stoermer. The Republicans are also learning how to spin environmental issues in their direction. In a confidential document distributed to G.O.P. Governors and members of Congress just before last November's elections, Republican pollster Frank Luntz advised party members to refer to themselves as "conservationists." The document said, "The first (and most important) step to neutralizing the [Republican environmental] problem and eventually bringing people around to your point of view on environmental issues is to convince them of your 'sincerity' and 'concern...
...ambitions to the U.N. Security Council. South Korean and Russian negotiators, who are in talks with North Korea, fear that any sanctions imposed by the U.N. could provoke Pyongyang. In Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it would hold a meeting on Feb. 3 to decide whether to refer the issue to the top U.N. body; South Korea urged a postponement to allow time for diplomats to work on the situation. In Seoul, North and South Korea met for their first high-level talks since the North precipitated the crisis when it withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty early...
...that headline writers refer to eliot spitzer with comic-book-hero honorifics like "the Enforcer" or "Sheriff of Wall Street," it's worth remembering that when the New York State attorney general began his breakthrough investigation of Merrill Lynch in 2001, he wasn't sure what he was doing. A general suspicion about the veracity of investment bankers' advisories had prompted Spitzer to launch a bit of a fishing expedition into Merrill's records. It wasn't turning up much, however, until early 2002, when Eric Dinallo, Spitzer's top aide on the project, came into his office and showed...