Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wild 24-hour period last Tuesday, 13 people were killed or wounded. Some of these shootings were committed by "ordinary" citizens; others could be tied to drug criminals, who continue to produce their own separate necrology, turning inner cities into so many Dodge Cities. Then there are the now familiar cases of children found carrying weapons to the classroom; only last week a New York City fifth-grader brought a sawed-off shotgun to school...
...your newsstand and at other outlets through March for $3.95,* 1968 recaptures familiar and forgotten images...
...three most important words in Bush's address remained the familiar cry of "no new taxes." That read-my-lips pledge from the campaign presented the President with what may prove an insoluble problem: how to meet the Gramm- Rudman target of a $100 billion deficit on his $1.16 trillion budget for fiscal year 1990. The commitment to comity with Congress ruled out the Reagan- era approach of proposing draconian, and politically unrealistic, cuts in domestic spending that would be immediately declared "dead on arrival." The familiar device of using overly optimistic economic assumptions to gild the budget...
...other dramatic shows on TV deal with such relentlessly uncheery subject matter. Tour of Duty is the more conventional of the two, an L.A. Law-style mix of characters, subplots and issues that are introduced and neatly resolved by episode's end. The show's flaws are familiar: characters who are too simplistic (the hotdogging helicopter pilot, the streetwise black private), and plot twists that are too patly "illuminating." When a battle- fatigued soldier is sent back into combat before he is ready -- over the objections of his sergeant and a psychiatrist -- you can bet that five minutes into...
...will succeed with its captive audience is yet to be seen. Early reviews from students who saw a prototype program were generally favorable. "I thought it was very interesting and informative," said Hajir Ardebili, a seventh-grader at Eisenhower Middle School in Kansas City, Kans. He had one familiar reservation: "Too many commercials...