Word: referred
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Turning to his comments on political vocabulary, it seems he has ignored the tendency to the pro-life movement (including himself) to refer to the pro-choice movement as "pro-abortion"--an accusation most pro-choice people would deny...
...unsuccessful negotiations with North Korea over nuclear safeguards. Barring an eleventh-hour breakthrough, the report will say that those safeguards have broken down and that the IAEA is no longer sure what North Korea is doing with its plutonium stockpile. The iaea is likely to force the issue and refer the matter to the U.N. Security Council, which will then have to decide whether to impose sanctions on North Korea. Pyongyang has threatened to treat sanctions...
...kind of Cultural Revolution zealotry has led some rape-crisis hysterics on college campuses to post photographs of male students, selected entirely at random, and labeled POTENTIAL RAPIST. Some women who have not been raped refer to themselves as "potential survivors" -- a trope that takes American victim-wailing up to a higher octave. Asked by the Washington Post to define the "two kinds of people in the world," one contestant wrote, "Women and rapists." (What would the Washington Post have thought of a contestant who divided the world between "men and whores...
Ironically, Radcliffe simply forestalls the arrival of gender equality. Harvard can refer all issues related to women over to Radcliffe, as Jesse M. Furman '94, former Perspective president, observed during the Kennedy School discussion...
...relief trucks and then used the cash and supplies to sustain the fighting. Roads improved by the U.N. to facilitate access for aid convoys have made it easier for all three factions to move troops and guns. The 300,000 survivors of the two-year-long siege of Sarajevo refer to themselves bitterly as "the well-fed dead," plied with just enough food to keep them alive for more shelling and sniper fire while Western nations refuse them military help to end the siege...