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Some of this advice should be straightforward enough. I would think candidates have been told not to use inappropriate relationship as a verb, particularly in its short form, as in "I think last night after the rally he IR'd that zaftig secretary from Scheduling." I can imagine consultants advising candidates that as a general rule, it's unwise to use the phrase youthful indiscretion if the dalliance took place at a time when either participant qualified for one of those leisure-housing developments like Sun City, Ariz., that are restricted to senior citizens...
...message, not its messengers? Perhaps, since the singing characters had already been portrayed as shallow bimbos. Before intermission came, the show also managed a salvo aimed at black urban culture. Stunned silence from some and guffaws from others greeted Nick Gordon's caricature of a performance as Sheik Ir-Bouti, recently returned from Long Island. In addition to the odious attributes of the show's writing, the majority of the actors suffered from overplaying that reached beyond the simply funny and into the realm of the suicide-inspiring...
Debate over the level of quality the IR should demand of its staffers has dominated recent executive board discussions, members said...
...revenue source for the magazine ended last year, Knox said. But because the IR is part of the International Relations Council, which runs the profitable model United Nations conferences, the magazine can afford not to be profitable...
Knox said he is currently seeking donations to the IR from charitable causes