Word: refering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local political columnist sarcastically calls him "Michael the Good." Many of his supporters refer to him as "the Duke." If it weren't so shocking it would be almost funny--that this short, homely, boring, geek of a governor named Michael Stanley Dukakis is the front-runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination...
Frisch has determined that if a woman weighs 10 to 15 percent below her normal weight, her reproductive cycle will be turned off. Doctors have even created a "fatness index," indicating the minimum amount a woman must weigh to be fertile. Women who become infertile can refer to this index to discover the weight they need to regain fertility, assuming nothing else is wrong, Frisch says...
...these are so, well, imprecise. When the ballot comes in the mail the coach thinks, "Well, who killed us this year?" and to refresh his memory, he often has to refer to stats instead of intangibles...
...pretty tempting." The pieces he will pen for TIME each year will appear in the Essay section, though Kinsley does not describe himself as an essayist. Once, while criticizing Financial Expert Felix Rohatyn, Kinsley wrote that one "laughably easy" way to earn a reputation as a philosopher is to "refer to your own writings as 'essays,' not articles." Says Kinsley: "I write articles. If people want to call them essays, I'm extremely flattered...
...welcome thrill for visitors carrying U.S currency: the greenback goes 27% further in Calgary. Despite the battering the dollar has taken virtually everywhere else, Canadians still refer to it as "real money." A few other measurements differ as well. Nostalgia buffs will be able to buy gasoline once more at Esso stations, but it is sold by the liter, not by the gallon. And then there are the speed limits, which are delineated in kilometers per hour. Calgarians, like most Canadians, are unusually law abiding by American standards. When it comes to speeders, the Mounties almost always get their...