Word: accustomedness
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It is often difficult to hire established experimental physicists, who may be reluctant to leave their accustomed laboratories and sources of support, Harvard physicists noted. "Harvard is a great university but in terms of physics facilities, there's nothing we have that other universities wouldn't have," said Karl Strauch...
The three women from Tulsa look like teen-agers but are actually in their 30s and mothers of three children each. Marilynn, a wife-mother-student, is ecstatic to be here alone: "I've never had a room of my own before." The mother and daughter with matching sulks...
The audience for this movie, moreover, is not entirely accustomed to watching subtitled films--this is being shown at a Sack Theater, not at the Orson Welles. Das Boot is being promoted as a movie that happens to come from Germany, not as a "foreign film," with all the connotations...
Strangely enough?and both Syrians and Israelis will resent this?they were more similar in attitude and behavior than either was to Egypt. The Egyptian leadership group is suave, jaded, cosmopolitan. Their Syrian counterparts are prickly, proud, quick to take offense. Egypt is accustomed to leadership in the Middle East...
But you can't teach an old dog new tricks, particularly when you're talking about a 71-year-old more accustomed to saying lines than thinking about them. We wish the President's tendency to shoot from the hip and his patent misunderstanding of critical issues did not reflect...