Word: referents
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Figuring out if a child has hypertension is trickier than you might think. Because children's blood pressure naturally increases as they grow older and taller, doctors must refer to a standardized distribution chart. Readings at the 95th percentile and up indicate high blood pressure. New guidelines, scheduled to be released this summer, identify the 90th percentile to 95th percentile as prehypertension...
...recruited in those sports, as a group, now…meet a standard based on the average academic qualifications of all students at that school.” Since Harvard’s average academic qualifications are higher than those of Cornell’s, pardon me if I refer to this as the “separate, but equal” clause...
...problem to this day; a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier; a land which has tamed rich natural resources through the energetic application of modern technology; a land which once imported slaves, and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. I refer, of course, to the United States of America...
...month of May the Poem Box Society had decided to honor former Harvard President Leonard Hoar (1630-1675) by renaming the Box in his honor. Until June please refer to it as the Hoar House Poem Box,” he wrote in an e-mail...
Move over, Martha. Get out of the way, Ralph. There’s a new girl in town (assuming that the term “girl” can refer to a 71 year-old girl-at-heart and “town” can refer to Palm Beach, Florida, one of the richest towns in the country), and her name is Lilly Pulitzer, creator of the brightly colored, Palm Beach clothing and lifestyle brand bearing her name. Lilly began her business in the late 60s, but today enjoys more buzz than ever as she whimsically prances barefoot into...