Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Teenagers have come to dominate all aspects of the crack business. "They are being used to process, package, cut and distribute, to sell and even to enforce discipline in the ranks," says Roy Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the eastern district of Michigan. Those familiar with the inner-city drug trade have never seen anything like it. "I grew up here," says Sergeant Tom Hughes of the Wayne County probate court, which includes Detroit. "There were drugs in our neighborhood. But they were heroin dealers. They didn't mess with children. That was the difference...
Prestowitz describes exactly how Japan got the upper hand through government support and protection of industry. The basic story is familiar enough, but rarely has it been presented in such rich detail. The book tells, for example, what IBM went through in 1960 when it sought permission to make computers in Japan. The company had to follow the government's guidelines on the number and type of machines produced and get approval before introducing any new model...
...young men, known locally as the shabab (an Arabic word loosely translated as "guys"), driven not by leaders but by the bitter frustration of 20 years of Israeli rule. As the uprising gained momentum, the established Palestinian political factions inside the territories belatedly sought control. In late January these familiar elements started to convert the spontaneous violence into a permanent, organized struggle for control of the territories. Temporarily burying their longtime rivalries, local members of the factions -- Arafat's Fatah as well as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, local...
...when the season ended yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field with a doubleheader against Brown, the unfriendly but all too familiar doughnut was bouncing around for the seventh and final time of the year...
This laborious process favors contour and flatness, light-and-dark contrast rather than color, and the single iconic shape. Sultan does decoratively what an older American artist like Robert Moskowitz does grandly: by taking a familiar shape and rescaling it, mainly as profile -- one still life of an egg and three lemons on a plate is also 8 ft. square -- he slows up recognition and provokes, in the more successful paintings, a sense of strangeness...