Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese refer to Ellsworth Bunker as the "blue-eyed sorcerer" or "the icebox." In their view, the American ambassador is shrewd, cool and manipulative, a match for the wiliest Vietnamese politician. He seems, in a word, inscrutable-so much so that a great many Vietnamese believe that Bunker, acting on Richard Nixon's behalf, eased Big Minh and Nguyen Cao Ky out of the presidential race. After all these years, they still do not understand the Yankee gentleman from Yale...
...surgeon also vented his resentment of South African physicians who will not refer patients for transplants because the chance of success is so slender. He acknowledged that organ rejection by the body was still an obstacle, but argued that "because a problem is not completely solved" is no reason to abandon a procedure. Barnard compared a patient doomed to die of heart disease with a man on the scaffold, the noose already around his neck: "Now you say to him, we won't hang you. You can stand 200 yards away...
HARVARD trained many of the scholars that the Ford grants enabled other universities to hire. The pre-eminent figure is tall, laconic Historian John King Fairbank, 64, a frequent consultant to the U.S. Government. Younger experts wryly refer to him as "King John." Starting as an expert on 19th century China, Fairbank has long argued for serious, sustained attention to the mainland. Historian Benjamin Schwartz's interests range widely, from Confucian thought to the rise of Mao; Ezra Vogel is a pioneer in the growing field of China sociology. Jerome Cohen was one of the first Westerners to become...
Sharp Salvos. The President did not confine his remarks to praise for his own prescription for health care reform. He fired several sharp salvos at the liberal Democrats' plan for a national health insurance system, though he did not refer specifically to the Kennedy-Griffiths plan. Existing federal health programs, he said, now cost the average American family 405 tax dollars a year; the Administration proposal would push that cost to $466. The Kennedy-Griffiths plan, he argued, would cost $77 billion, nearly 25% of the total federal budget, and would hit the average family...
...Hurts, doesn't it? It is unfair for those meanies to categorize you and hold all responsible for the sins of a few. Let's do index and insist that medium1, medium2, medium3 hereafter refer to us as the South1, the South2 and the South3. MRS. J.L. HUNT Brunswick...