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Word: referred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...errantly refer to someone as, say, a "Nazi son-of-a-bitch," can your online provider be held responsible? That, in essence, is the issue being decided in state supreme court in New York thanks to a libel suit filed against Prodigy, one of the Big Three online services. A Long Island financial firm claims it was unfairly accused of fraud on a Prodigy bulletin board. Prodigy, like other online service providers, regards itself simply as a conduit through which people communicate - like a telephone company - and thus claims it isn't responsible for postings. The suit, complains a company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Netwatch | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...Democrats can now refer to members of the G.O.P. as "Sonny Bono Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Days Are Here Again | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...bureau, UHS, Harvard Dining Services, the athletic department, ECHO and other groups are also linked through the Eating Concerns Network, a group of professionals who refer students to each other as appropriate and periodically discuss the issues faced by students with eating disorders on campus...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...nerdy sort of earnestness about it. On a recent weekday, a visitor could watch the student government debate the senior class's annual joke resolution with the tenscity of the U.S. Senate discussing health care reform. (Among other things, the proposal called for Dalton's first-year student to "refer to any area where a group of seniors has gathered as Mt. Olympus...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: William Cole and His Fish Stories | 10/19/1994 | See Source »

...opening scene, the gentility of Willum Cubbert's (Colin Stokes) life is established. He runs with a geriatric set, Axl (Michael Schur) and Tansy (Marit Haahr), who jokingly refer to their crustiness between cocktails. So perfect are Axl and Tansy's sentences that they practically speak in rhyming couplets. Their straightlaced and ordinary lives need shaking up; on this day, Willum's birthday, they get what they need...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: Exagerrated Nerd Gets Its Revenge | 10/13/1994 | See Source »

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