Word: referring
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...Labour would be probusiness, pro-enterprise, noninterventionist and keen to cosset the rich, believing their wealth would trickle down into the wider economy. Brown also led the way for Britain to put in place a new governance system for financial services that he and other politicians like to refer to as "light-touch" regulation (although bankers and regulators cringe at that phrase; they prefer to call it "appropriate" regulation). In June 2007, just days before he replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Brown gave a rousing speech at the traditional black-tie dinner in Mansion House, the residence...
...more than one of the wild animals on campus. “I’m pretty sure there is more than one,” the California native said. “I think I’ve seen a bigger one and a smaller one. Nonetheless, people refer to any turkey they see as ‘The’ HBS turkey.” Fredrickson noted his disapproval of students who wanted to remove the turkey from the campus grounds, and expressed hope that turkeys would populate the Business School campus in future years...
...those within his party pushing for his ouster. In a heralded speech at Labour's annual meeting in Manchester on Sept. 23, Brown said the country's current financial turmoil--echoing credit-crisis woes in the U.S.--meant this was "no time for a novice." He went on to refer to Labour as a "rock of stability...
...refer you to the municipal elections that took place in early August. We relaxed the emergency rules to allow for normal election campaigning. We haven't heard any complaint from any of the candidates...
...rustic bosom. “The air and sunshine are so clear and fortifying here. The whole outdoors smells only of pleasant things.”“Ah, Roxanna,” Frederick said. “It is not merely to our physical state that I refer. The mental evanescence which animates us all, the spirit; that too can become ill. Our souls are no less fragile than our bodies, their immortality notwithstanding.”Roxanna, who believed Frederick to possess great wisdom and sensitivity in nearly everything, considered these remarks gravely. She wished she could...