Word: refering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community. In addition, the finalists are expected to raise a total of nearly $1 million for the Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.) war chest before the winning city is picked. The victor will be encouraged to raise at least another $1 million when the convention takes place. City leaders ruefully refer to the donations as "ransom money...
...absoluteness of that belief gives Aquino a firmness that can turn into stubbornness. Indeed, her very real sense that she is an instrument of God's will prompts friends and relatives to refer to her career, again and again, as a "mission." Says her mother-in-law and confidante, Dona Aurora Aquino: "I think this is a mission for her, to put her country in shape. Then she can retire. Ninoy's assassination was his fate. The presidency is hers." Cory often says the same thing...
Despite the amount of data we receive, though, the ultimate effectiveness of it is determined by the men who must decide whether the Russian words "the target is destroyed" refer to a downed jetliner or are part of a routine drill. And even when the correct decision is made at this level, its accurate interpretation by the political leaders is far from certain...
...speech of people outside the fields of humanities from which these words come. Often we hear that deconstructionism is the hottest new wave in literary analysis. But how many of us know even a little about how it works? And how many of us forget that rationalism refers specifically to the belief that humans have a cognitive faculty which allows for reason independent of experience (it does not simply refer to the process of "thinking logically") and that empiricism refers to the belief that all ideas are derived from sensory perceptions? How many users know the difference between a regular...
...poems entitled "Don't Grow Old," and that is the overriding theme in White Shroud. "I can't get it up/...Growing old in my heaven," he writes in "Airplane Blues." He is clearly self-conscious in his poems, for he is both old enough and important enough to refer to himself several times. Increasingly, Ginsberg's poetry is rooted in his past, as he alludes to "Howl," "Aunt Rose," and several other early works...