Specialists in the field sometimes use the term "avoision" to refer to grey areas.
Muslims use the term "peace be upon them" to ask for blessings on deceased holy men.
The Japanese use the term kakusa shakai (society of disparities) to describe what has happened.
Let me start with the basic definition of cultural movements, at least as I use the term.
While board members might not use the term, they often describe the symptoms.
T-Mobile continues to use the term in its marketing and other communications anyway.
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He didn't get everything right, but he knew business was a borderless world before others would use the term.
But some doctors and mental health providers use the term more loosely.
But Singapore is, to use the term loosely, getting a fashion makeover.
For assets that a family can't keep, planners use the term "social capital": money that can go only to the IRS--or to charity.
He did not use the term "very closely, " as he had in previous statements, suggesting that another hike could be some months off.
They also use the term LENR to distinguish these reactors from the chemical cold fusion reactors sought by researchers beginning in the 1980s.
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Dr. CHRISTOPHER: To use the term of today, that's going to slow the growth of Medicare, I think, from 7.4 to 7.2 percent.
Speaking loosely, investors use the term to describe public offerings (for cash) of the sub's shares, and they call the reverse transaction a spin-in.
GlobalChoice Healthcare, based in New Mexico, doesn't offer sightseeing assistance or even use the term medical tourism, instead calling itself a medical travel company.
An e-book at the centre of a row over who can use the term "space marine" is back on sale on the Amazon website.
It decreed the IRS could no longer use the term "illegal tax protester" to describe folks who claim it has no legal power to tax them.
"I thought we'd got over that from the 1970s when people used to use the term 'spastic' in the playground, " says Benet Middleton from the society.
Those raising apprehensions can be reassured that HR and corporate strategy tend to use the term resource in a neutral way, with no implication that people ought to be mechanized.
In fact, 40% of the U.S. population would use the term "influential" to describe Washington, according to Los Angeles-based E-Poll Market Research, which ranks almost 4, 500 celebrities on 46 different personality attributes.
"To use the term 'in the middle of nowhere' is a bit of understatement, " said Det Insp David Giles, the Suffolk police officer who visited the home in January as part of the investigation.
We may want to avert out eyes, worry about the problems at home, and think this one, too, can be "kicked down the road, " to use the term fashionable for explaining inaction on domestic matters.
Financial planners use the term risk tolerance in assessing how much volatility or fluctuation of principal an investor is comfortable with, knowing that all investments have some degree of risk and most investments fluctuate in value.
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With these two tenets in mind, I give you my overview of the trends that will matter long after spring 2013 (and, given the weather, I use the term advisedly and loosely) has drawn to a close.
According to studies by Los Angeles-based E-Poll Market Research, which provides appeal rankings for more than 3, 000 celebrities, 70% of the U.S. population would use the term "overexposed" to describe Hilton, up slightly from a year earlier.
While straight up advertising, virtual goods, or commerce driven consumer plays will not be in the fairway for us, there is a segment of consumer opportunities where we are very interested, and we use the term Empowerment to characterize them.
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And we use the term redlining since then to talk about either residential segregation or to talk about banks that tended to follow the pattern of loaning money to white neighborhoods and then redlining or leaving out credit availability to minority neighborhoods.
But after Lehman went bankrupt, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker often talked about proprietary trading at banks, and the term "proprietary" became confusing (to say nothing of, dare we say, sullied.) "They wanted to distinguish what they do from other firms that use the term proprietary trading, " explains Overdahl.
We use the term "buy" here loosely, since mobile Firefox will be free just like every other version of Firefox out there -- a key selling point (again, forgive our nomenclature) against rival Opera in the battle for the hearts and minds of the mobile internet warriors running WinMo -- and that's what's got carriers so intrigued.
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