Word: accustomedness
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"The Filipino-American community is not culturally accustomed to supporting foundations. We really don't know what reaction we'll receive to our initial thrust," he says.
Second-year students, who operate on a different academic schedule than the first-year students, received their grades early last month. Accustomed to seeing "E's," "SAT's," "LOOP's," and "UNSAT's," many students in their second year were bewildered by the numbers in front of them.
To a returning American grown accustomed to the civility and efficiency of modern Japan, the U.S. seems to have become a quagmire of bureaucracy, ineptitude, mean spirit and lackadaisy. In Los Angeles, New York, Miami and other cities, the repatriate is appalled and depressed by the lack of efficiency and...
The difference in Contramania was that Reagan was too detached. Donald Reagan had isolated the president from the issue. The disclosure was thrown at Reagan, forcing him to assume the role of "reactor" instead of his accustomed role as "actor."
The countries of northern Europe, more accustomed to harsh winters, suffered fewer casualties than their southern neighbors. West Germany reported five deaths. The four Scandinavian countries together reported a total of five exposure-related deaths. Nonetheless, the chill caused severe hardships. More than half of Denmark's 200 inhabited islands...