Word: referred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article on stars referred to celestial events around the time of Jesus' birth. However, there is a great deal of scholarship which indicates that Jesus was not an historical character. One might as well refer to stars at the birth of Jack Frost or Santa Claus...
...host-vector systems refer to Eschirichia coli, a strain of bacteria that rarely survives outside the lab, which can be used as a host bacteria for recombinant DNA experiments...
Some Palestinians, of course, are already thinking about their prospective new homeland in practical economic terms. These "Jews of the Arab world." as other Arabs haughtily refer to Palestinians, are already involved in tourism, real estate, banking and engineering elsewhere in the Middle East. They envision a Palestinian state that would become a kind of Middle Eastern Liechtenstein, offering a corporate base at easy tax rates for companies that wanted to operate in the Middle East. They assume that wealthy Arab states like Saudi Arabia would underwrite the costs of building a new country...
...care for our own elders, why should a hoodlum? If psychiatrists and advice columnists refer to old parents as a plague to keep at a distance and call men who love their mothers sick, how can we persuade the young to respect them...
...guess you could call running up steps refined in comparison to the ergometer. The erg, as crew members affectionately refer to it, is a form of off-the-water torture that the Chinese cannot take credit for. It looks like the tanks, but with not only no sunsets, but also no water, and no rowers. Except, of course, you. Just you, and the oar handle, a timer ticking the slowest seconds in Cambridge, if not the world, and a meter to let you know how you're doing...