Word: refering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classic names are short and catchy and refer to creatures that can be found in any local zoo, creatures we grew up with as kids. Tigers, we all know, are fierce and cubs cuddly...
Turning 21 in this country seems to be the secular equivalent of being bar mitzvah-ed. (Not that I have too much experience with it; I refer you to my byline.) Isn't it odd that we earn the law's permission to libate ourselves silly after we earn the right to vote for President or the risk of being tried as an adult and sent to jail for embezzling from "An Evening With Champions"? At 18, we're entrusted with legal control over and responsibility for our actions. Three years later, we're granted the legal right...
...would be nice if pre-med tutors could knowa little about vet schools or could refer you tosomeone who knows," Ellenberg says. "I want to letpeople know it's an option, because I didn't haveany...
...decides to jettison his longtime producer Gale (Megyn Price). He presents his Machiavellian decision as a favor to her. "You work here, what? 9 a.m. to midnight. When you go home, who's waiting to hear about your day? A cat. You are what the guys in our business refer to as a 'news nun.' You may hate me right now, but someday you'll understand that I care less about my own shot than I did about your having a life...
...that all those tiresome headlines about Titanic's sailing into troubled waters gave way to all those tiresome headlines about Titanic's being unsinkable. I do remember that it was around Super Bowl Sunday when the people who are paid to pontificate on television--the group we refer to at our house as the Sabbath Gasbags--confidently said that Clinton would be out of office in a few days, that public outrage was particularly strong because baby boomers had intern-age daughters and that the American people would demand that President Clinton come forward immediately with a full explanation...