Word: refering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Home Depot campaign is an indication, the greens have a good strategy. Reluctant to be called anti-business, they refer to "market campaigns" rather than consumer boycotts. To deter corporations from taking timber from untouched parts of British Columbia's Great Bear Forest, the world's largest vestige of coastal temperate rain forest, the Rainforest Action Network, along with the Sierra Club and other groups, used a stick and carrot on the big customers of lumber companies. The activists blasted Home Depot for buying Great Bear wood, but when the chain stopped, they ran ads praising the decision...
Marcus, who joined Amazon in '96, recalls learning Web coding on the fly in order to get his reviews online. Kerry Fried sardonically references "my assistant" to refer to her endless clerical duties. Almost every Amazonian spends half his time each December wrapping packages and manning customer-service lines. "It doesn't matter what you've done before and what you're going to do later," says Moe. "You figure it out as you go along...
...details of this production include the sound-effects and the slide projections. The vivid slides more than make up for the paucity of the physical set. These images remind the audience that this is not just a play about two individuals out of time and place, but that they refer to historical events that actually occurred. The penultimate scene of the Tiananmen Square Massacre becomes real for the audience as they see Karen and her friends suffering from physical and mental pain in front of the backdrop of projected photos of the real actors and victims of Tiananmen Square...
...wanted all of the songs to refer in some way to time or the passing of time or the millennium," Gonsalves explains...
...told the group that her concern is for the student's health, and she might refer a student to alcohol counseling...