Word: refering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characterized Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione, 50, as an arrogant, unprincipled New Yorker, "the gentleman sitting over there in the velvet pants." When Guccione suggested that only people with the intelligence of a "flatworm" would think the disputed article was nonfiction, Spence, a University of Wyoming law graduate, began to refer to himself and fellow state residents as mere flatworms. He also listed 15 similarities between Pring and the protagonist of the article, which described how a baton-twirling Miss Wyoming used her sexual prowess to try to win the Miss America Pageant...
...case of mis-billed calls, we attempt to straighten out the problem." Charles Reardon, a spokesman for the New England Telephone public relations department said yesterday. "However, if we see a pattern, that is, if we think some type of fraud is involved, we refer the matter to our security division, which then decides how to proceed," he added...
...Germans call it Schmiergeld (grease money), though export traders usually simply say N.A. for niitzliche Abgabe (useful contribution). In France, where there is veritas in the vino, a payoff is called a pot-de-vin or jug of wine. The Italians refer to a bribe as a bustarella (little envelope). Under-the-table payments in East Africa go by the sobriquet chai, Swahili...
...important that students feel confident and comfortable in a discussion. Keenan said, adding that a section leader should start a discussion with a text or a mini-lecture. Students need something to which they can refer to get them going, he said...
CONTEMPORARY SOURCES often refer to the Civil War as the rich man's war and the poor man's fight. It is the heart and mind of the South's poor man that Keneally explores inConfederates. He describes the soldiers of Virginia in 1862--already accustomed to the lice which infest their ragged uniforms, to the diarrhea which attacks their bowels. They have established their own social hierarchy as new soldiers yield to crotchety veterans and all share a degree of good-ol-boy autonomy. They see their side as the "democratic army," in which the soldiers elect...