Both Congress and the White House should embrace a framework of "trust but verify," in President Ronald Reagan's phrase, based on real standards and real oversight.
And last week the French decided not to emulate Britain's auction, instead allocating licenses in a "beauty contest" (their phrase!) based on "merit".
It is, for want of a better label, an anachronym, defined here as a word or phrase based on a physical object that has passed from normal use.
While you're at it, try Senator John McCain's "There'll always be an Israel" speech (phrase based on a 1939 song) on http://mccain.senate.gov/ aipac02.htm.
They have transmogrified into boldface names, a phrase based on the vestigial vocabulary of early journalism that was first applied to awestruck press coverage of the world of fashion.
Sixteen years ago, in a decision that produced no majority opinion, a four-justice plurality said the phrase "based on smoking and health" in the labeling law did not apply to pre-empt suits under state laws based on the "general duty not to make fraudulent statements".
"Calendar Girls" is not nearly as mortifying as one of the most recent films to use the phrase "based on a true story" -- this fall's remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" -- though the real-life story of "Girls" is particularly horrifying to at least one person: 16-year-old Jem John-Paul MacLeodd). John-Paul MacLeod
Thus we get the PPR score of each candidate phrase based on the keyterm score.
Online Learning Methods For Discriminative Training of Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation, Abhishek Arun and Philipp Koehn, MT Summit XI, 2007, pdf.
The Hoxton Square / Tech City / Silicon Roundabout / East London (pick your favoured phrase) based startup was founded by founded last summer by Khurram Farooq, Moin Maniar and Stephen Rust, Payumi has been in public beta but launches fully next month.
