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Word: use (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...attacked the Bush Administration for "ignoring history of the Middle East" and trying to use such "client regimes" as Saudi Arabia and Israel to serve U.S. interests...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: Anti-War Speakers Decry U.S. Gulf Policy | 12/8/1990 | See Source »

...kind of strange because it depends on who uses it," says Virginia C. Ravenscroft '92. "A lot of people who are really against gay rights use the term and so that tends to make it unpleasant," she says...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: What's in a Name? | 12/7/1990 | See Source »

...acknowledge that there are definite limits to their use of the alternate spellings. They both say that they would not bother trying to hand in an academic paper using the word "womyn...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: What's in a Name? | 12/7/1990 | See Source »

...even in academic writing, gender-oriented linguistic reforms are beginning to appear more frequently. Asay and McDonald say that they now use "she" as an indefinite pronoun in their papers...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: What's in a Name? | 12/7/1990 | See Source »

Geography also has a lot to do with the words that people use, says Carlos R. Perez '91. Persons of Mexican descent in Texas tend to dislike "Chicanos," but California is full of them, he explains...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: What's in a Name? | 12/7/1990 | See Source »

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