Word: referents
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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
...There were lots of differences, too. Lenny (first name only, please: it's no easier to refer to Lenny as "Bruce" than it is to call Woody "Allen") enjoyed nothing like Elvis' celebrity, though the prototype "sick comic" had a unique notoriety. His corrosive comedy routines, and the occasionally raw language he used to make his satirical points, landed him in the docket on obscenity charges in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. "Factually, the show is indecent," he acknowledged. "The areas that I discuss are not pleasant. However, I do think they have the freight of substance...
...talking about the kingmaker line, and he rolls his eyes when I even refer to that narrative. Almost all the national coverage of the race has focused on how the liberal blogosphere has propelled Lamont - a skinny billionaire whose talking points consist of being anti- war and not Joe Lieberman - to his lead over Joe Lieberman. "Do you know how insulting it is, to the people that are working hard out there to win the election, to come in and say, some guy in Berkeley is the reason why Joe Lieberman's going to lose...
...does have to wonder, a little, though, about the effects of living for four decades so close to a brother whose name doesn't even have to be invoked for people to know whom you're talking about; Cubans will just make the gesture of stroking a beard to refer to Fidel. Among the many photographs at the family house in Birn is one of a young boy in a cart. The official caption says the picture is of Fidel. On the print itself, someone has written in pen: "Soy yo, Ral." "It is me, Ral...
...posters, some saying “Sí” and other saying “No” were difficult to ignore. I figured that the Spanish government was not offering a Spanish language crash course to foreigners, but if not that, then what could these signs refer to?The answer came a day later in Spanish newspapers. The headlines all shared one word: “L’estatut.” After asking some people at work and a friend in a contemporary Spanish government class, I learned how the Si?...