Word: referred
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...called books), narrator can also be a tricky word because the third-person voice doesn't necessarily have to be the one telling the story all the time. Speaker is a good substitute. Persona works in poems. But when there are a lot of characters, it's best to refer to everyone by name, but only if you make sure to explain how the naming of people functions in the text...
Companies as well as federal and state programs should encourage doctors to refer those patients who do not need the full range of hospital services to less costly outpatient clinics. Simple fractures, for example, often can be treated in this way. Pay doctors and hospitals less for clearly wasteful practices...
When plans for Hydro-Quebec were announced in 1970, Quebec's premier, Robert Bourassa, called it the "project of the century." But Ann H. Stewart, coordinator of the Massachusetts Save James Bay organization, said opponents now refer to the project as the "folly of the century...
Other states have identities. California has a metaphysic. Americans do not refer to the Pennsylvania Dream or the Missouri Dream. California has always been an immaterial, shimmering thing in the imagination, the golden exception, the California Dream. California is where the Europeans' westward trajectory ended. Americans become metaphysical about the place because when they run out of continent, they start to review the entire national experience and try to add up its meaning...
...refer specifically to the exploding pink triangle on the cover of the October/November issue. Whether or not it was Peninsula's intention, such imagery immediately calls up visions of violence towards homosexuals and not just opposition to their practices...