Word: referents
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...guys are displacing European players and taking their jobs. All for the sake of money. David Collinson Victoria, Canada Importing Knowledge Re your report on the Davos World Economic Forum [Jan. 31]: Those who defend economic globalization against the charge that it makes rich countries poor often refer to the reasoning of economist Jagdish Bhagwati and his colleagues. They maintain that it is not realistic to assume that globalization will take high-end jobs away from rich countries. Supporters of globalization say it is not probable that China or India will suddenly develop a huge number of workers with sophisticated...
...find out, I traveled to a common room in Lowell, where I met three roommates who refer to He’s Just Not That Into You as “The Bible.” These girls take the book’s jacket inscription to heart...
...However, your article in TIME, Aug. 29, SPORT, headed "Bowling on the Green" will certainly cause many ardent admirers of the game of Bowling or Ten-Pins to express their resentment pretty forcibly. I refer of course to the words in that article "bowling or ten-pins played now in indoor alleys by bar-flies and roustabouts." This really is pretty bad because it implies that the game is only played by bar-flies and roustabouts which is of course an absurdity. For example, the International Bowling League will hold its annual tournament in this city next winter and there...
...scrap its own plan for a handpicked government to write the new constitution and instead accept Sistani's demand for elections. Indeed, many voters at the polls saw voting as a means of ending ?the occupation,? the collective noun by which many Iraqis - even cabinet ministers - refer to the U.S. presence. In other words, Iraqi voters didn't necessarily see themselves as marching in President Bush's freedom parade; many saw themselves voting to ask it to leave town...
Mohsen Azimi holds the engraving machine tight and etches the image of an open book onto the base of a gray tombstone. He puts the date of "sunrise" on one page, and "sunset" on the other, as Iranians refer to birth and death. It's 10 p.m., way past his usual working hours, but Azimi, 27, has had so much business he's brought his brother-in-law from a city 800 km away to lend a hand. Gravestones have been in heavy demand since shortly after this ancient city was destroyed by an earthquake one year ago. But people...