Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clinch the argument that in Europe, childhood is a daunting entrance exam for premature adulthood. Their plot is archetypal: a boy is sent away from home for a wrenching rite of passage. In Jean-Loup Hubert's The Grand Highway, the lad learns conventional wisdom, and the film evokes familiar smiles and tears. In Louis Malle's Au Revoir les Enfants, the Nazi occupation of France triggers a boy's crisis of conscience. Malle's movie, sure to be nominated for the foreign-language Oscar, is the bleak, heartbreaking goods, but it shares with the Hallstrom and Hubert films...
...from a tepid performance in the early 1980s to become the world's No. 1 prescription drugmaker. Though many Americans probably could not name a single Merck product, especially since its Sucrets sore-throat lozenge and Calgon bubble- bath brands were sold in 1977, physicians and pharmacists are very familiar with the company's 100 drugs, from antibiotics to anticholesterol pills. Merck's sales surged by 23% in 1987, to a record $5.1 billion, as profits ballooned by 34%, to $906.4 million...
...year-old discovery and isolate lovastatin, which could inhibit the production of melavonic acid and block the buildup of cholesterol. Merck spent eight years assessing lovastatin's safety. By November 1986, when Merck sought FDA approval for what was then known as MK- 803, agency officials were already familiar with the details, because the company had kept them informed of the drug's progress every step of the way. FDA approval last August came after just nine months of review, instead of the usual 30 months...
...surprising move, network television turned its back on the Great Communicator. ABC, CBS and NBC refused to broadcast a presidential address on the eve of the vote. Network executives said there was no news in Reagan's 20- minute plea, and in fact, the speech was full of familiar hyperbolic rhetoric: "Nicaragua is being transformed into a beachhead for aggression against the U.S." In a follow-up address, Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton offered the prevailing House view. The U.S., he said, should wait and see if Nicaragua sticks with the peace process set in motion by last summer before restoring...
...ritual was familiar, but the specifics were unprecedented. When U.S. Attorneys in Miami and Tampa announced two major criminal indictments last Friday, it was not just another drug bust. The accused was General Manuel Antonio Noriega, commander in chief of the Panama Defense Forces and de facto ruler of an important U.S. ally. He was charged with drug trafficking, laundering millions of dollars in illicit profits and providing safe haven for some of the world's most notorious narcotics barons...