Word: referents
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...refer not to the drunken rowdiness—what college town isn’t plagued by the late-night carousing of unruly lads and ladies?—but rather to the shameful conduct of the administration, and in particular, the Planning and Real Estate office. A brief review of Harvard’s attempts at expansion reveals an attidude towards local communities that is at best embarrassing and, at times, devious...
...they seem almost gratuitous—they’re not really practical and almost certainly will not factor into any future career. When I sit in section, surrounded by Divinity School students and devoutly religious undergrads who liberally sprinkle the discussion with direct quotes from Scripture and refer constantly to their well-worn pocket Bibles, I feel useless. So much of what they regard as fundamental truth appears, to me, the equivalent of a fairy tale. Approaching the material from my non-religious standpoint, I get the sense that any opinion I have is inconsequential...
...JAMA article itself acknowledges such a possibility, although it does not refer to prostitution in particular...
...banned by MTV. Rather, it has offended the government of Thailand, a country not known to be coy about sexual matters. Officials are not objecting to the dance moves or what looks to be an orgy but to a pair of posters in the background written in Thai that refer to the country's sex industry. The Thai distributor for Aguilera's music label has decided not to air the video on local stations. Chances are, the effort by Thai officials to deny Thailand's reputation as a haven for libertine adventures should prove less of a problem for Aguilera...
...evidence against Friebe’s comment, the Crimson can refer to its nine convincing non-Princeton wins this season, as well as its season two years ago, when it earned the Ivy League’s only at-large berth in the NCAA tournament to date...