Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desires of the 48.4% who had voted for the left. Specifically, he promised that his Cabinet would contain some new faces who would symbolize the need for social reform in France. But when Giscard unveiled his Cabinet last week, 25 of the 38 senior and junior ministers were old, familiar countenances...
...Minister of Industry, for example, is André Giraud, 53, who has been chief of France's Atomic Energy Commission since 1970. Transportation Minister Joël Le Theule, 48, held a ministerial post under De Gaulle, while Culture and Communications Minister Jean-Philippe Lecat, 42, was a familiar figure at the Elysee Palace as Giscard's spokesman...
...many a Yankee aspirant. However, his stories are still set, with occasional departures (The Japanese Corpse), in Amsterdam, where his sleuths have taken over the turf once occupied by Nicolas Freeling's late, lamented Inspector Van der Valk. Van de Wetering's latest Dutch treat, starring the familiar trio of Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier and their commissaris, is cerebral, comradely and sensual, within the generous Hollander dollops that make KLM a perennially popular airline...
Meanwhile, students and freshman proctors are not preparing any rave reviews of the production. Students on the Committee on Undergraduate Education seem satisfied with the Core now that the amendments have passed, but a Crimson poll showed last week that 65 per cent of the students who were familiar with the Core opposed the plan...
...Faculty will almost certainly vote on the proposal; barring a major upset, the Core will be implemented. Yet the Core misses the mark. It assumes that students should become familiar with a certain established body of material, but the Core will not be an improvement over Gen Ed. It will merely replace it in a more streamlined version that will further isolate the Faculty from undergraduates and decrease the value of an already problematic Harvard education...