Word: familiar
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...since Berryline first opened in September, 2007, said that the store’s busiest time is in the evenings after local families and college students have dinner. “Things are crazy after eight,” he said. But even with Berryline business pouring in, the familiar frozen yogurt dessert joint is far from being able to claim a monopoly on the frozen yogurt front. National frozen yogurt chains such as Red Mango and Pinkberry carry similar tasting yogurts and fresh fruit toppings. All three companies, capitalizing on a wave of enthusiasm for trendy, low-calorie alternatives...
...their struggle for acceptance and the right to wear religious garb in public settings. A new poll from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life finds that Americans see Muslims as encountering more discrimination than any other religious group. But while Americans are more likely to be familiar with Islam or personally know a Muslim than they were at the time of the attacks, levels of tolerance are lower today than they were in the months immediately following Sept. 11. (See pictures of Muslims in America...
...same time, Muslims have become a more familiar part of American society - nearly half of all Americans claim to personally know someone who is Muslim, compared with just 38% of Americans in November 2001. And that number will probably rise in the future, as familiarity with Islam and Muslims is much more common among younger Americans...
...coalition air attacks. Soon after the pair were grabbed, their newspaper opened up channels to Taliban commanders in Kunduz, the province in northern Afghanistan where the hostage-taking occurred. Officials from the International Committee for the Red Cross were in direct contact with the captors, according to a source familiar with the negotiations, as were sympathetic local Afghans and tribal elders with ties to the Taliban. (See pictures from a battle in Afghanistan's Kunar province...
...this point, everyone is familiar with the raft of cost-saving measures the ever-so-wise college administration has implemented in order to slice a few million dollars out of what was apparently a bloated operating budget. These cuts come in the face of—and this is just ballpark, folks—about 10 billion lost dollars in our endowment (summary of the budget fiasco thus far: salaried administrators 1, wage-earning Harvard employees 0). Recently, the powers that be realized the silliness of their proposed changes in the shuttle schedules and repented. Why can?...