Word: referred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been decorated with five gold stars as a Hero of the Soviet Union and of Socialist Labor, his country's equivalent of both the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Brezhnev's colleagues in the Politburo had even been known to refer to him as vozhd (roughly, great leader), a title previously given only to Lenin and Stalin. Privately, Soviets joked about the cult of personality that gradually surrounded their President as he fought against the inexorable frailties of old age. It was said, for example, that he had even outdone Stalin...
...Children's Hearings Project operates out of the Cambridge, Somerville, and Malden Juvenile Courts. It has been funded since its first cases in June 1981 by the Ford Foundation and other private grants Probation officers refer CHINS cases to Project case coordinators, who suggest to the parties involved the mediation alternative. Project director Sandra A. Wixted says that "very disorganized families, or families with severe mental problems, tend to screen themselves out": either they do not accept mediation or they fail to appear for scheduled mediation sessions...
American slang is fed by many tributaries. Feminists are busy networking-the liberated version of using the old-boy network. Cops, as sardonic with language as criminals are, refer to a gunshot wound in the head as a serious headache. Drug users have their codes, but they seem to have lost some of their glamour. Certain drugs have a fatality about them that cannot be concealed in jaunty language. The comedian Richard Pryor introduced the outer world to freebasing a couple of years ago, and John Belushi died after he speed-balled (mixed heroin and cocaine). Punk language has made...
...both of these cases, which were found valid by the University and in which punishment was meted out the students involved were white and the professors were Black. Because there are only these two publicized cases every time anyone talks about how a harasser was punished they must constantly refer back to the same two Black...
...China's commitment to peaceful resolution of the island's future. The Chinese Communist Party daily Renmin Ribao attacked the President for "completely violating" the spirit of the communiqué. The Chinese want to leave the linkage tacit. Reagan's sin, in their eyes, was to refer to it explicitly...