Word: referred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refer to the Contract as the American Dream Restoration Act," said Korologos, who is currently president of Washington's Timmons and Company...
...Harvard and at colleges nationwide, one of the most hotly debated campus issues has been the tendency of minority students to socialize and live together. Both students and college officials often refer to this association as "segregation" or "self-segregation." But this is an appalling definition--minorities who enjoy the company of their own communities engage in congregation, not segregation, as ex-NAACP head Benjamin Chavis has pointed...
...state of te College admissions process that her case so vividly illustrates. The New York Times reported that Grant had been questioned about the death of her parents by a Harvard alumni interviewer who was "interested in the orphan angle." How typically shallow of the college admissions process to refer to personal tragedy as an "angle." When I applied to college in 1987, my counselor told me to do some hands-on community service to improve my application. I remember being disconcerted by his frankness; the primary purpose of the service was to make me look good. If I helped...
Nevertheless, the evidence suggests that Grant herself has not yet fully come to terms with her deed. She did, it appears, refer to the murder anywhere on her Harvard application. Indeed, it seems she did not even check the box which indicates that she had been absent from school for a prolonged period of time (six months in a correctional institution certainly qualifies). She failed to provide full disclosure and thereby left the Admissions Committee ignorant of crucial information concerning her past...
Lately, the titles themselves have become inscrutable and genuinely unsymbolic. Despite the critical acclaim for the movie, to what exactly does the title "Reservoir Dogs" refer? A particularly glaring category embraces those titles that combine a gerund and a person's name. The first of these were acceptably succinct, e.g. "Educating Rita" and "Eating Raoul." Not too difficult to figure out what these films were about, no. But then, a couple of years ago, came that cinematic treasure known as "Regarding Henry." So, it's a film about Henry. What about Henry? No one could possible know...