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Word: refering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hussein and Arafat call upon Israel to withdraw from all occupied Arab territory--the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights--but do not promise to recognize Israel in return. While the accord vaguely alludes to a "comprehensive peace" based on U.N. resolutions, it does not specifically refer to Security Council Resolution 242, which implicitly acknowledges Israel's right to exist within secure borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East in Search of Partners | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...feminism is a recent or purely Western phenonenon should be dispelled by this book. You will find no calls for the maintenance of the status quo because the book was not intended to give air to any conservative views women might have. And while the contributers in some cases refer to progress taking place, they overwhelmingly call for change. But for all the similarities we find in the calls for action, we leave the book with a profound conception that the immediate concerns, obstacles and priorities of these activist women are anything but uniform across the globe...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: From Woman as World Reformer... | 3/9/1985 | See Source »

...despite these changes, the mainly traditional nature of the Experimental Section has spurred some questions as to just how "experimental" the curriculum really is. Although students in Section I often refer to themselves as "guinea pigs," most do not believe that teaching methods are recklessly unproven. "I don't think we're really guinea pigs," says 11 John M. Barr. "It's not too risky," Rakoff agrees...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha jr., | Title: The Great Experiment | 3/6/1985 | See Source »

...change in extremely unconvincing, in light of everything we know about South. Unlike the American South, Where racism existed in opposition to established constitutional principles, the white Afrikaaner policies of apartheid are part of an entire civil theology and political culture of race separation wherein the hereditary Afrikaaners often refer to themselves as "The White Tribe." Even the token reforms undertaken by the Botha government have drawn vehement criticism within the Nationalist government and have prompted a rightward shift in much of the Afrolaamer electorate. Far from warming to reforms in apartheid, white South Africa threatens a violent backlash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: We Must Act Now | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

...business on the court. No matter; they grabbed and choked and pushed Princeton players long after the referees had broken up the initial scuffle. From Saturday's melee, it would appear as though Mother has a better left book than sky book . And we might a well refer to Dodson--an effective choker--as the Boston Strangler...

Author: By Bob Chnha, | Title: Class Conflicts | 2/26/1985 | See Source »

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