Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the explanations for the dollar's dive were depressingly familiar: the continuing weakness of the nation's trade balance, lack of progress in Congress on an energy bill, persistent rumors that petroleum-exporting nations might be planning to stop pricing their oil in dollars and switch to a basket of stronger currencies. To that litany, businessmen, bankers and money traders added a couple of new elements: dismay at the lack of any sort of dollar-strengthening scheme to emerge from the economic summit in Bonn of the previous week, and a feeling that European leaders are making unexpected...
...Motor Co. did not deny is that in 1975, at just about the time reports began to circulate regarding a deep rift between Henry Ford and Iacocca, the company ordered up an audit of the travel and expense-account practices of a number of Ford executives. According to sources familiar with the details, the audit was really a full-scale investigation, and it was highly unusual. It ranged far beyond the expense accounts of some Ford managers, cost some $1.5 million in company money and was personally launched by Henry Ford. Most important, it centered on an exhaustive and wide...
...expensive fast cars, gambling and good whisky. True, true. But Sagan has also found time to spin off twelve more novels and nine plays. Her latest dramatic effort, scheduled for a Paris opening in the autumn, is called It's Nice Day and Night and is laced with familiar themes: an adulterous affair, alienation, the triumph of good over evil. Of course, work demands some reward, and so, with the play completed, the playwright has left her Paris home for an August breather in Germany's Black Forest. "My head is empty at the moment," she says...
...fact, all those night riders across the neon terrain not only summon familiar memories, but have misled some reviewers into thinking that Springsteen has driven himself right off Thunder Road and into a rut. "But," he says, "everything has its limitations and its ultimate possibilities, and you got to test them to find out what they are. It's like those Italian westerns at the drive-in. I always loved it that they showed 'em all at once. That's the way I make these albums?so they get played all at once...
...illustrates the difference between gossip and "personality" journalism: though an authentic personality, Solzhenitsyn is allowed his right to privacy. There is less of journalistic prying now, even though gossip and gossip columning are still around. Gossip flourishes particularly in Washington, where political hypocrisy still lends savor to misbehavior. More familiar nowadays are volunteered surrenders of privacy. Celebrityhood lives by publicity and must be ready to be "interesting...