Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first essential is to hold down federal spending and reduce the rate of increase in the U.S. money supply. That classic remedy for inflation has been advocated so often that Administration officials refer to it as "the old-time religion...
...other sex therapists have taken up where Masters and Johnson left off. Susan Greene, for instance, is one of three women at the Berkeley Sex Therapy Group, run by five psychologists near the University of California campus. In the Los Angeles area, at least 30 psychologists and psychiatrists refer patients to surrogates, including two men who work with women who have difficulty achieving orgasm. There are also a few surrogates in the New York area...
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...designed to smother policymakers in blankets of legalism, compromise and reappraisal-and thereby prevent hasty decisions from being made. The centralization of government that led to Watergate has spread to economic institutions and beyond, making procrastination a worldwide way of life. Many languages are studded with phrases that refer to putting things off-from the Spanish mañana to the Arabic bukra fil mishmish (literally "tomorrow in apricots," more loosely "leave it for the soft spring weather when the apricots are blooming...
...reunion of the 1954 Pennsylvania State High School Basketball Champions. Four of the players gather in their coach's living room to relive the glory of their come-from-behind win, to drink a few beers, to swap locker room jokes. The high school heroes, grown men now, still refer to their host as "Coach" with the kind of nameless deference that is usually reserved for a parent. They look at him as the symbol of old times, as an exemplar of moral and physical strength...