Word: refering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point to a serenity and self-contentedness which I find lacking in the city, the paragraph as a whole displays unforgivable ignorance. For the record, Boise is in Idaho, a thousand miles or more to the west of Iowa. And it lies in that section of the country we refer to as the North west, not the Midwest. Todd Christopher Andrew...
...Second Revolution," a phrase used by both Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to describe the upheaval in economics and ideas now under way in the two Communist powers. The Chinese speak of gai ge (reform) or kai fang (opening up). The Soviets refer to perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). What the new slogans herald is the most far-ranging shift in course since Dictator Joseph Stalin drove the Soviet Union onto the path of forced collectivization and heavy industrialization in the 1930s and Beijing's Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, launched the Cultural Revolution...
Send personal envoys to Wall Street to upbraid the worst of the speculators. Then just to gig them a bit more, refer in conversations to capitalists who are "too damned greedy." Make it stated policy that the job of the Government is to keep up the quality of American life and that concern will first be focused on the underprivileged, education, housing, conservation...
Baker is noticeably tired these days and losing his long war against weight -- aides refer to him affectionately as "the Heifer." But despite recent rumors, he is not looking for a way out of the White House. Nor is the President or Nancy, whose approval is requisite, listening to conservative calls for his ouster. Baker says he loves the job, particularly the chance to work closely with Reagan. "My greatest peril," he quips, "is that I will run out of good stories before he does." Besides swapping yarns, the two men share remarkable self-assurance and poise...
blade: cool way of saying oar. Also a way to refer to the painted part...