Word: refering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rebellion of Singh's communist coalition partners has been brewing for some time: The Left Front resented India's betrayal of its traditional ally Iran when Singh's government voted alongside the U.S. to refer Tehran's nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council. And they oppose India being drawn closer to the U.S. strategic orbit, staging mass demonstrations last month against India's involvement in joint naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal with the U.S., Australia and Japan...
...They called us in to tell us we needed to change the name, so we thought they would be pissed.”As it turned out, the dean’s objection was actually just that “Harvard” could refer to any one of the various schools within the University, so the group needed to specify “Harvard College.” With a sigh of relief, they changed the name to the Harvard College Stand-Up Comedy Society (HCSUCS).Such stand-up comedy groups have no real precedent at Harvard, but Greenbaum...
...might at first be inclined to frown at a seeming infestation of the gawky and bespectacled yellow masses into our most elite and whitewashed institutions—but before we indulge in the image, let’s try to imagine more precisely the demographic to which the numbers refer...
...only club, whose aggressively vague name is an invisibility cloak for some of the most influential economic and social conservatives in the country, meets three times a year to plot the vast right-wing conspiracy's next moves--and remind its members not to talk to reporters or even refer to the group by name. Those attending the three-day September meeting in Salt Lake City got to hear Vice President Dick Cheney talk about the war and Mitt Romney testify on his home turf for family values. The agenda included sessions like the Next Generation of Conservatives, presented...
Clayton D. Miller ’10 doesn’t look like someone who would casually refer to himself in conversation as a Level 68 Dwarf Priest. Disarmingly polite, with a large buckled belt and a baseball cap that proudly reads “The Virginian,” Miller is every bit the Southern gentleman. And yet, surprisingly, every bit the World of Warcraft enthusiast.“You think you won’t be into it ‘til you try it,” he drawls. “Like Harry Potter...