Word: referents
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...Monday's White House event meant to undo the damage on "Kyoto." Usually the Japanese town is used to refer to the agreement on limiting global warming gasses that was negotiated there, but in the White House it has come to mean the second round of environmental problems. Round two started when Bush reversed his position on limiting CO2 emissions which many scientists believe contribute to global warming. When he simply reiterated his opposition to the Kyoto protocol that locked in the notion that he didn't care about the issue at all. "Kyoto" has also come to symbolize...
...When they are not calling him Wizard (a tribute to his magical offensive abilities), the Mariners gleefully refer to Ichiro as Ichiballs. He has learned a variety of English curse words, plus some of America's most useless phrases. Rookie reliever Ryan Franklin taught Ichiro to say "chillin' like Bob Dylan...
...them the accomplishment is equally as great. One of them was a driven doctor from New Canaan, CT who fulfilled a life-long dream to not only scale the highest mountain in the world, but to climb the seven highest peaks on the earth?s seven continents. Climbers refer to this as conquering the "Seven Summits." For Dr. Sherman Bull, Everest was the final piece of a remarkable feat that few can imagine and even fewer accomplish...
...Hollister has coined the term "dodecasophist" to refer to his base-twelve system of matching numbers with letters to describe personality traits...
...modified musical staff, with the vertical axis representing the rotation of the record and the horizontal axis representing time. Ever since, he's been refining the system he calls TTM, turntablist transcription methodology. "Before notation, the music didn't have a lingua franca," says Carluccio. "People would refer to certain scratches, like a baby scratch"--which moves the record back and forth without mixer controls--"or a drag"--a slow scratch that creates a low pitch--"but no one knew how to replicate them precisely." With the help of industrial designer Ethan Imboden, Carluccio created TTM version 1.1, a pamphlet...