Word: referents
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...family was far from perfect. His mom and dad paid the bills by peddling heroin and cocaine from the living room couch of their three-bedroom home on Chicago's South Side. The parents had a sense of decorum. In front of Homer and his brother Frankie, they would refer to the two drugs as "boy" and "girl." Homer and Frankie never learned which was which, though they knew it was dope. Once, when the police came by, the brothers hid underneath a bed, emerging to beg the cops not to take their mom and dad to jail.But...
Bush likes to point out that he had a life before he went into politics, ran a baseball team, lived outside the bubble, made the acquaintance of "real people," though only people who have led a pretty unreal life ever refer to people as real people. His father's first race was in 1964, when George W. was already 18. Gore, on the other hand, was soaked in politics from birth. His mom and dad were born poor; her bridal bouquet was an armful of weeds he scooped up on the roadside. Gore's father saw government as a means...
...rare cases, cause liver damage or a breakdown of muscle tissue. Anyone who is using statins needs to undergo periodic blood tests to check for signs of liver trouble. Most people on the pills report no complaints; those who do commonly list fatigue as the major side effect. Others refer to the peace of mind statins give them. "I feel safer," says Janet Brown, a 57-year-old New Yorker, who has watched her LDL drop from 177 mg/dl to 90 mg/dl. "I'm not walking on life's tightrope when it comes to my cholesterol...
...candidate or the other is not the sort of person I might think he is. Not only that: I find myself craving this reassurance. When George W. Bush assumed a slim lead over Al Gore, for instance, I felt the need to make another call to a friend I refer to as the Republican Reassurer--someone who spent a lot of his spring reassuring people that George W. Bush is not a dimwit...
...Bush likes to point out that he had a life before he went into politics, ran a baseball team, lived outside the bubble, made the acquaintance of "real people," though only people who have led a pretty unreal life ever refer to people as real people. His father's first race was in 1964, when George W. was already 18. Gore, on the other hand, soaked in politics from birth. His mom and dad were born poor; her bridal bouquet was an armful of weeds he scooped up on the roadside. Gore's father saw government as a means...