Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe the Sandinistas' statement that the contras pose no real threat while in the same breath they point to devestating damage inflicted by the US-backed rebels? Rushdie is trapped by contradictions that he never even sees. In a country of boy soldiers who are "already so familiar with death that they have lost respect for it," in a country that has lost the equivalent of an entire year's production to war the causes of conflict beg to be addressed...
Reassuring? No, chilling. American experts are virtually certain that the bugs are there, all right, but are so tiny and cleverly hidden that they are next to impossible to uncover. Sources familiar with the situation say technicians have detected audio-frequency emissions that they think originate in the electronic-coding equipment. That suggests a device in the equipment that enabled the KGB to read the plain-English versions and then the coded versions of messages, and thus crack U.S. codes and read American diplomatic cables throughout the world. Moreover, inspections of the new U.S. embassy building now under construction have...
...with hundreds of miles between venues, "you usually have time to take a shower or eat, not both." Apart from the show, the big event most days is the one-hour lunch stop. The cast favors shopping malls and K marts for the chance to spread out and avoid familiar faces. Once or twice a month there are "golden days," when the company neither travels nor performs. "Golden days," says Kaye, "are when you do your laundry...
Among the familiar names are Palandjian and fellow Co-Captain Bill Stanley. Palandjian, who is entering his fourth season on the team, is currently ranked 28th in the nation. Last year, he scored a big victory over Stanford's Patrick McEnroe (brother of John McEnroe) in the NCAA tournament...
...dumping and Japan's refusal to open domestic semiconductor markets were the last straw. For one thing, the ink on the semiconductor agreement was barely dry before, in Washington's view, it was being ignored. For another, that Japanese behavior seemed to U.S. officials to be part of a familiar Japanese attitude toward trade issues: delay followed by nominal agreement followed by intransigence...