Word: referring
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...Call in Iraq," about how the violence there is closing in even on the Green Zone [May 7]: The British surrendered and pulled out of Ireland. The French surrendered and pulled out of Algeria. What the Republicans now call surrender in Iraq the rest of the world will surely refer to as "ending the illegal occupation." Jay Williams, Austin, Texas...
...influence as a business historian was such that some analysts refer to the period before Alfred Chandler published his works as "B.C." The "dean of management theory" was known for his accounts of how General Motors and other giant corporations were developed. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1977 book, The Visible Hand, which posited that very visible managers had replaced invisible market forces as the key factor shaping corporations...
Professors voted to refer questions surrounding evaluations to the Committee on Pedagogical Improvement for further review...
...There are logical rules as well, such as finishing a subtitle when a character stops speaking and not extending it over a cut, which can be disorienting. Good subtitles work with the rhythm of the scene, based on accurate spotting that captures that timing. Whereas now a subtitler can refer to the film on cassette or DVD throughout his or her work, in the old days, they'd see the film just once before writing the subtitles sometimes weeks later based on the spotting list, without a description of the context - a recipe for inaccuracy that probably contributed to dislike...
...concerning timing, nature, and uses of the evaluations have to be addressed before they become mandatory. As Skocpol prepares to step down from her post at the end next month, the push for universal evaluation may prove to be the last public act of her deanship. Professors voted to refer questions surrounding evaluations to the Committee on Pedagogical Improvement for further review. At a meeting in May 2006, professors failed to reach a quorum for a binding vote on the same matter even as some of them blasted the proposal for infringing on “professorial autonomy...