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Word: familiarizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday's game was closer than most the Crimson has played this year. But it had a familiar result. Just another despairing page in the Crimson's diary...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Another Despairing Page | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...Fallon becomes a possible vice presidential candidate. But he's unqualified and vapid and young and his main attribute is his good looks. Sound familiar? The Bush/Quayle campaign quickly denounced the series. They managed to get the network to drop the "from today's headlines" tag, and a network affiliate in Indiana dropped the show...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: The Black Sheep of the Family | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

...Lang was good player in high school that I was not familiar with," says Roby...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: Non-Recruited Athletes Surprise, Star | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

Very few firms these days are big enough to be safe from takeovers. This year alone, such familiar institutions as Kroger, Polaroid and Bloomingdale's (Federated Department Stores) have come under attack. One reason for the buyout binge is the amount of money available for acquisitions. Private investors have guaranteed more than $30 billion in capital to large takeover funds, providing would-be raiders with the capital to mount their attacks. Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, an investment firm with $5.6 billion for use in takeovers, is a leader in the field. Since the takeover funds can borrow against their capital, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fights on Wall Street | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...Manchester's projected triple-decker biography covers the years leading up to the outbreak of World War II, when Churchill was indisputably right. Out of power and derided as a crank, he sounded the alarm about the terrible plot being hatched inside Hitler's deranged mind. The story is familiar, but, told with skill and vivid anecdotes by Manchester, it continues to shock and horrify. Four times, by Churchill's count, firm action could have stopped Hitler without a shot's being fired; four times Britain's leaders, along with their counterparts in France, ignored or willfully misinterpreted the evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lightning In His Brain | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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