Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HANDS OF THE SIGN INTERPRETER were somehow more captivating than the actual words spoken by the women on the steps of Mem Church. Almost everyone there was familiar with the statistics being reeled off on rape and sexual harassment, but the signer gracefully translated them into emphatic motions. Her hands, with their eloquent, forceful silence, reminded me of why I had come...
However, sources familiar with the dispute saidboth of Harvard's actions resulted fromnegotiations with the Cambridge Rent Control andCommunity Development departments...
...first section Schumer covers in rich detail the interpersonal relationships which seem to dominate intellectual learning and personal growth here. While much of the material will be familiar to the initiated, she effectively puts the interaction between female students and the institution into context by citing studies of college-aged women of the time, bolstering and lending historical credence to her developing psychodrama...
...incident was a terrifyingly familiar episode in Sri Lanka's bloody four- year-old civil war -- except for its gruesome magnitude. Last week separatist Tamil rebels, who are fighting for an independent homeland in Northern and Eastern provinces, waylaid six vehicles with mostly Sinhalese holidaymakers returning home from celebrating the Sri Lankan New Year. The rebels dragged passengers, including women and children, from the buses and trucks, then mowed them down with machine-gun fire. When the shooting stopped, at least 126 travelers lay dead on the jungle roadside. The violence prompted the government to terminate a cease-fire with...
...terms of classifying 'new' conservatism as racist in nature, the cartoon is simply incorrect. It is unclear what Boyd means by "new." If he is referring to the neo-conservative movement, he is obviously not familiar with the nature of this type of conservatism. Neo-conservatives are acutely aware of such social problems and seek to solve them through a pragmatic balance of government action and private initiatives...