Word: familiarization
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...former Lowell House resident called “Jamie” by his friends and colleagues, accepted the challenge, because despite the other commitments he was juggling, Houghton felt a sense of loyalty to the company. Since Houghton still lived in the town of Corning and was already familiar with the company’s inner workings, he thought the transition back to chief executive would not be too difficult despite the company’s dire financial straits...
...fiery end to what had been a mind-numbingly long meeting, full of familiar arguments and bureaucratic pacing. The states spent much of the morning and early afternoon making their cases that they have been punished enough for leapfrogging the primary calendar against the Democratic National Committee's rules. Representatives from Hillary Clinton's campaign argued for why both delegations should be seated in full and in a manner fully reflective of her substantial victories in the two states. Representatives from Barack Obama's campaign countered that he wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan, and suffered...
...paparazzi and TV crews, to glean worldwide publicity for the event. So the premiere of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the first Indy movie since 1989, was headline news. Producer George Lucas, director Steven Spielberg and leading man Harrison Ford showed up to promote their familiar if robust revival of the archaeologist adventurer. Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman appeared with their sweetly vigorous animated comedy Kung Fu Panda, and Woody Allen presented a very agreeable romance, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, with star Penélope Cruz...
...latest flashpoint in the global financial crisis, Iceland is nursing a familiar sort of economic pain in a typically cool way. Over the past two years, the country's banks enjoyed extraordinary growth by borrowing heavily on international capital markets, leading Iceland to rack up a $2.7 billion current-account deficit, equivalent to 16% of its GDP; the comparable figure even in the notoriously indebted U.S. is only 5%. In January banks worldwide clamped down on loans in response to the global credit crunch, and investors began to worry that Icelandic banks had leveraged themselves too aggressively. Rumors swirled that...
...downtown Prague on May 22, is not autobiographical. It's true that the play, entitled Leaving, and has echoes of Shakespeare's King Lear, tells the story of a top official leaving office -as former President Havel did in 2003. Some of its characters seem easily recognizable to those familiar with Czech politics. But Havel is not being disingenuous: The lead character, an aging politician named Vilem Rieger, is far too humorless to represent the former dissident who once scored Lou Reed an after-dinner gig at the White House. "I was interested in the more existential side of things...