Word: referents
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...Equatorial Guinea, Guyana or Guinea-Bissau) and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (a collection of islands that sounds like it also could be an up-and-coming lounge act). But East Timor's problems are compounded by the fact that its population of just under 1 million is commonly referred to by no fewer than four names. Even though less than 10% of the population speaks Portuguese, the ruling government decided to follow in the footsteps of Brazil, Cape Verde and Mozambique by making the former colonial European tongue East Timor's official language. On East Timorese passports, the country...
It’s rare to encounter such a clear breach in the Harvard bubble. Most of us seem to refer to the “bubble” as if it were some geographical feature of Harvard Square. But it is as much mental as physical. We make conscious choices every day to protect ourselves by ignoring: We skip over the horrors of another article about more carnage in Iraq, or gingerly step around destitute homeless people in Harvard square. This willful ignorance grows out of a Harvard culture that makes it too easy to lose a sense...
Pinker declared emphatically that “One cannot endorse a food item that leaves its eaters unsure about how to refer to eating more than...
Adams and Sprenger share an intuitive ability to foresee how a garment or object will best play for the store. They know their customers?or "guests," as they quaintly refer to them?better than anyone. The designers they partner with, themselves unassailable control freaks and not always familiar with the vagaries of large-scale production, are inclined to see their point. "It's like a whole new world to figure out," admits McCollough. "Target interested me because they are more mass market than my company," says Sarafpour. Exposure in 1,494 stores, as well as royalties, doesn't hurt either...
...refer to advanced research as ‘obscurantist’ is a screen for ignorance. And it is an odd sort of “hen house” that has so many roosters. Most research projects at the Institute have nothing to do with gender. After having read this opinion piece, that is perhaps a shame...