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It would be interesting, though, if the Justice Department or the FCC were to embrace a broader definition of "competition" and to see Time Warner and AOL as essentially competitors in this amorphous thing we call "media."
The restrictive definition of the USO does not allow a post to rationalize either its cost or pricing structure,3 thus, creating cream-skimming opportunities under liberalization.
Both Longman and W9 estimate their macrostructure ( headwords/entries ) and their microstructure ( definitions ). But what of Cobuild and CED ? What do they mean by references ? In CED the relevant definition of reference seems to be “a book or passage referred to,” or perhaps “a mention or allusion”; in Cobuild , “something such as a number or name that tells you where you can obtain the information that you want, for example from a book, list, or map.
No one thinks even oral sex, as practiced outside the laboratory, actually escapes the Paula Jones suit's stringent definition of which organs must come into contact with which body parts.
I doubt that it is accurate to define gunsel as a `callow youth,' a sense that probably rubbed off from the character played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon: though he was referred to (by Bogart, as I recall) as a `punk' and `gunsel' and was portrayed as ineffectual, that does not justify a transferred definition: gunsel , probably from Yiddish, is a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman, body guard, torpedo, hit man,' and the like, simply a `criminal who carries a gun,' and needs no (additional) pejorative treatment.
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