Word: referents
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...yesterday's discussion, the committee decided to refer the matter back to the entire council in coming weeks for a vote. In order to approve the measure, the majority of the council will have to pass a home rule petition that would then have to be approved by the Massachusetts state legislature...
...Neill, then Speaker of the House, on that warm spring day. Bok, upon finishing the story, proceeds to disappear. Having already mentioned in the short preface that he began the book in 1992 as he was retiring from Harvard’s presidency, Bok does not again refer to his substantial pedagogic experience. His book on “why our government [is] not working better and how it [can] be improved,” relies rather on survey piled on opinion poll. It is an impressive collation, but I felt more enlightened about the state of government in America...
...thanks to new research out of Harvard University and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, I may have an excuse for what I euphemistically refer to as my "little sugar problem." In two separate studies, scientists found a gene in mice they believe is responsible for craving sweetness - and it may also exist in humans. If these findings, detailed in the May issue of Nature Genetics, hold true for people, they could help explain why some of us are riveted by a box of saltwater taffy while others can simply turn away...
...their "resources redirected" to the point where they no longer exist--a euphemism that rivals "downsizing" in its gentility. Funding for potentially huge items, including such signature initiatives as a missile defense and the partial privatization of Social Security, is bumped into the mysterious "out years," which non-budgeteers refer to as "much later...
...there’s one thing the comic book community has never completely been able to shake it’s the stigma associated with age. Since comics were originally geared towards children (even today many within the industry still colloquially refer to them as “funnybooks”), a great majority of people have come to associate comic books exclusively with kids—and the claim “Only kids read comics!” has become the standard (and inaccurate) battle cry for the legions of adults with “more serious?...