Word: referents
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...Second Opinions Don't Always Add Up Too many physicians are quick to refer patients to yet another doctor instead of doing the heavy lifting themselves. That's not only inefficient ? it's bad medicine
...could accept that President Bush is, as you put it on the cover, "faltering in Iraq," "out of favor with his own party" and "increasingly isolated." But to refer to "the world he's created" was just too much. The present state of affairs was created by the terrorists of 9/11, not the President. George R. Ours Petersburg, West Virginia...
...Revolutionary Front, or B.R.N.), set up in the 1960s. The new militants are more ruthless and, while their youthful ranks overlap with P.U.L.O. and B.R.N., they refuse to publicly align themselves with any insurgent outfit. Their leaders are unknown. In the local Malay dialect, the new militants are simply referred to as juwae, or "fighters"?that is, when anyone dares refer to them at all. Most worryingly, the juwae are apparently not interested in talking peace, despite Bangkok's post-Thaksin eagerness to do so. Surayud's fresh approach has had no impact on the daily diet of bomb blasts...
...explains Mark Nord, one of the principal authors of the USDA report. Some anti-hunger activists said that any household that had to struggle to keep food on the table should be classified as hungry; others countered that this diminished the power of the term, and that it should refer only to the more severe cases. So about three years ago the Agriculture Department asked experts at the National Academies of Science to weigh in, and their committee agreed that "hunger" should be reserved for cases when persistent food insecurity results in "prolonged, involuntary lack of food," and the result...
Even though Michigan fell in the first battle, the war has yet to be decided. Their hatred for—and the fact that they can still hope to get a rematch with—Ohio State sustains them, therefore maintaining the sanctity of the 103-year rivalry they refer to as The Game...