Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mexico's Macho Mood," there is the all too familiar reference to illegal aliens from Mexico. If these people did not find employment north of the border, they would not come. So if we truly want to face up to the problem, we will search out and fine the employers...
...current response to all the chug-a-lugging on campus has been a flurry of pamphlets on how to fight alcohol abuse and a parade of new college information and counseling centers. Such centers are becoming almost as familiar on campus as homecoming games and fraternity parties-the occasions that have always called forth prodigious assaults on the bottle. The dedicated drinkers, though, generally quaff quietly off campus, making the rounds of such traditional hangouts as The Pub on State Street in Madison, Wis., or the Goose's Nest on Notre Dame Avenue in South Bend, Ind., or Quantrill...
...basic Apple II consists of a typewriter keyboard about the size of an attache case; it plugs into any TV set and flashes information on the screen. It can be programmed by anyone familiar with BASIC, the simplest computer language, to do income taxes, balance a checkbook, record recipes, update the Christmas-card mailing list and play chess and backgammon. Benjamin Rosen, a Manhattan investment analyst, relies on his Apple for evaluating securities portfolios and doing cash-flow projections...
...Radcliffe Policy Committee (HRPC), Students Faculty Advisory Council (SFAC), and Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), which still lingers, formed the new student bureaucracy. Ten years ago, the Committee on the Organization of the Faculty--formed after a Paine Hall sit-in protesting Faculty unresponsiveness to students' needs--established the familiar Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and Committee on Undergraduate Education...
Although some staff members on both sides of Byerly Hall expressed fears that "particular kinds of expertise and values would be lost in a combined office," Fitzsimmons says as the staffs became more familiar with each other "the majority really looked forward to the combination with excitement over dealing with the other half of the population...