Word: referring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maps, the beautiful, bustling island 100 miles off the coast of China is clearly labeled: Taiwan. The swarms of tourists and businessmen who arrive at the cavernous Chiang Kai-shek International Airport know they have landed in Taiwan. Even hostile communist officials in Beijing sometimes refer to their old foes, the Nationalists, as "the authorities on Taiwan." But if the government on the island should ever begin calling itself the Republic of Taiwan, signaling that it is declaring its full independence from the mainland, the most likely reply from the People's Republic of China across the straits would...
Coley said the normal procedure at UHS is for students to be seen first by a primary care physician. Depending upon the severity of a patient's symptoms, the primary care physician will either refer the patient to a specialist or to a physical therapist...
...doctors advise administrators how to handledelicate situations and refer students to outsidecare...
...Radcliffe Health Services were willing toplunge into the indecorous by offering advice onissues of sexuality, although such matters werenever discussed openly. Abortion as well ascontraceptive advice and devices were illegal inMassachusetts. Radcliffe's kindly women doctorswere willing to refer students to accommodatingdoctors off-campus for contraceptive advice...
QUENTIN TARANTINO learned an important lesson last week: Don't drink and talk race. The feisty director got into a discussion with an African-American acquaintance, Barron Claiborne, about whether there are "black features." At one point Tarantino put two fingers in his nostrils to refer to the shape of some black people's noses. Later, after more drinking, Claiborne "comes and stands over me, which is something you don't do to another man," the director told Howard Stern. "He starts it all up again." Tarantino told the guy to get out of his face. "And then our friend...