Word: accustomedness
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Landry said Brennan’s transfer is by no means unusual—religious orders frequently move their members from one community to another based on need, she said. But the sudden nature of his order is less usual for the church community at Harvard, which is accustomed to...
Yet one need only check the stock tables for evidence that Citi shareholders are accustomed to a larger-than-life boss. Citi stock fell 5% on the succession news, and even a brief dip is no small matter at a company with an intense culture of ownership. That culture keeps...
Classes in the summer program are held in different rooms of the Tobin building—even though most middle school students take all their classes in a single room—to help students grow accustomed to movement between classes, she explains.
Growing up in a family that is half Catholic and half Muslim, I became accustomed to the idea that people can have different religious convictions and still live together in harmony. Even though the three Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have big differences, they also have many things...
In his discretion Franklin differed from his countrymen, who almost universally found the Paris posting a Calvary and who were vocal on the subject. One swore he would prefer a farm in America to a dukedom in France. Adams wailed that he would rather be a doorman in Congress. Among...