Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Census Bureau statistics refer to "Negroes and other races." Since Negroes constitute 90% of this category, Wattenberg and Scammon believe that the figures are reliable...
...basic teaching and learning relationships at Harvard. He has previously hit on this theme, addressing himself to curriculum reform in his annual report to the Board of Overseers and in countless speeches. Seldom, though, has he couched his educational interests in the rhetoric of "pure learning," or what people refer to with varying degrees of seriousness as The Life of the Mind...
Younger Oglalas refer to Wilson and other Council members as "uncle Tomahawks." AIM charges that Wilson has misused tribal funds, and resorted to nepotism to fill tribal posts. The truce agreement signed last Thursday calls for a complete audit of the Council's books...
...addition, I am surprised that an article so serious in its concerns, the questions it raises, and its potential implications is so lacking in comprehensive numerical documentation of the overall admissions and aid picture and trends. Unfortunately, the few figures given refer to only one department, and even there give only selected percentages, as opposed to true numerical levels. Without reference to such levels, the implication of discrimination can sometimes border on the ludicrous...
...other museum men, Hugues de Varine, director of the International Council of Museums in Paris, thinks this document is "better than nothing." But neither he nor anyone else is really optimistic about it as only three of its 26 articles call for real action from the signatory nations; these refer to the need for export certificates, tightening of penalties for theft and prohibiting museums from buying stolen antiquities. So far, only a few countries, like Ecuador and Honduras, have signed the convention. The U.S. signature has been ratified by the Senate but not the House of Representatives...