Word: refering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gould refer to the Adams family as an extinct species of dinosaurs...
There is now little doubt that the Cambodian government is one of the most brutal, backward and xenophobic regimes in the world. Cambodians themselves refer to the Khmer Rouge simply as "the Organization." Refugees who have managed to flee to Thailand -often after days and weeks of walking through thick forests and jungles along the border-describe the revolution as a chilling form of mindless terror. In sharp contrast to Laos and Viet Nam, where party cadres have subtly tried to win popular support for social change, there are no revolutionary songs, slogans, poetry, party newspapers or "reeducation" centers...
...STONES MAY BREAK YOUR BONES, BUT WORDS CAN KILL YOU reads one. A BOAST NOW, A BOMB LATER goes another. Over lunch at the staid Salisbury Club, business and government leaders dismiss those who worry about the future as "dismal Jimmys." But many are quietly preparing what they refer to as "fallback positions, " slowly salting away nest eggs abroad despite Rhodesia's stiff system of restrictions on overseas capital transfers. More houses than ever are up for sale, but there are few takers. Last year nearly 10,000 whites left Rhodesia for good. The country's white population...
Carter said he would admit the manual because it did not refer to any specific operation. But he turned down Browning's efforts to enter another document on the grounds that it was much too specific. The disputed item was a rough diagram of the floor plan of a North Sacramento branch of the Bank of America. The single sheet of paper carried a handwritten note by Patty: "saw 7 employees: 5 women & 2 men (1 young & nervous. Manager is fat & Black...
Instead, like everything else at Harvard, birth control is quietly decentralized. Out of the basement of Stoughton in Room 13, students give tips on the latest birth control methods or refer people to favorite doctors at the University Health Service. On the third floor of UHS, a social worker passes on information about the morning-after pill or abortion. On the main floor the internists--the closest thing that Harvard has to birth control clinicians--scurry around prescribing the birth control methods to students seeking contraception from UHS. And, up on the fourth floor, gynecologists see patients with particular problems...