Word: refering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medical school professor "did in the laboratory sometimes refer to women as cunts, did make sexually suggestive gestures, and did write instructions to [the student] on a notepad picturing female genitalia," according to the confidential report of a faculty review committee...
Owners of the Philadelphia-based chain specifically chose the Walnut Mall location because of its proximity to the University of Pennsylvania Said Paul Curry, one of the store's owners, "We want UP [University of Pennsylvania students] to refer to this as 'their Steve...
According to Ford, somatizing disorders take many forms, including hysteria, malingering, chronic pain and hypochondriasis. The hypochondriac is preoccupied with the fear of having a serious disease. Some doctors refer to the treatment of hypochondriacs, or "crocks," as "psychoceramic medicine" and the recitation of their histories as "organ recitals." Other somatizers sometimes deliberately fake illness, going so far, for example, as to rub a thermometer on a bedsheet to produce a fever, lacerate the skin to create lesions, or overuse laxatives to disrupt the gastrointestinal tract. In the bizarre Munchausen syndrome, which, according to one estimate, affects...
...problem with volunteer tax advisors, Allen said, is that "some people get carried away with what they think they can do." The IRS purposely limits what they teach the volunteers, and encourages them to refer complicated problems to the IRS's main Boston office...
...policy emphasis of the speech was the president's opposition to the nuclear freeze--the bulk of it merely an intensification of his standard anti-freeze position. The president did refer to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," but in general the speech recalled his address to the British Parliament last June, in which he called for an effort to promote democracy throughout the world. Most of the net effect of the evangelical convention speech, therefore, was political, silencing those on the New Right who have wondered whether the President has forgotten them. Just as commentators on Chinese affairs...