Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women slipped back into Cuska, it was Gentiana who picked through the charred pieces of bodies inside three smoldering houses to find the remains of her father. She used to give him massages, she said. Ten men had died in that house, but when her fingers touched a familiar torso, "I knew his back...
...less on the basis of their specific virtues than on the associations they invoke. And in the same way that ad makers look for those patterns of positive association that will turn their product into a market leader, so do campaign makers look to package their candidate in associations familiar to the voters while avoiding policy specifics...
...joined another group similar to one I'd been in high school. I'm not saying you won't try something new and find it's just right for you, but there's something to be said for sticking with what you know. Because at Harvard, even the familiar takes on a different light...
...there?s a good reason why Clinton the politician (a far more familiar incarnation) is letting Commerce Secretary Bill Daley do the haranguing, and why he's trying to kill the bill without a well-publicized veto: Al Gore. "Clinton has to be careful about this," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "The steel unions are very powerful, and they really want these quotas. Gore ?- and Hillary too ?- is counting on union support to win, and Clinton?s opposition is going to make them angry." It already has. The United Steelworkers of America arranged to have steelworkers descend...
...have the familiar characters, ready to play out their traditional family road-trip roles. But we have something that significantly alters the plot: a technology-laden vehicle, in which, for hours at a time, our kids can forget they're traveling at all. Rather than opt for another minivan or sport-utility vehicle when we went car shopping a couple of years ago, we followed the lead of a neighbor (who drives to Connecticut every summer) and bought a luxury liner, better known as a conversion van, custom-outfitted for long road trips. Among its many perks: two stereos...