Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is infinitely superior," Crane said. Model Congress places the emphasis on discussion over debate, the Mather House resident said. Model Congress also has "the advantage of being less esoteric. People are more familiar with domestic issues...
...group of Cambridge and University activists envision constructing "a model type of community" in which homeless and low-income families would live and interact with moderate-income Cambridge families and Harvard affiliates. But the plan for an experiment in "totally income-integrated" living has run up against a familiar stumbling block that has fallen in the path of many similar idealistic projects before it: money, or the lack thereof...
Cold war buffs by now should be familiar with Blackford Oakes, William F. Buckley's tony spy hero of six previous novels. The cold is something he never had to come in out of. He knows that he works for the good guys. In his latest adventure, Blacky confronts the Evil Empire, circa 1954. Stalin is dead, Georgi Malenkov sits unsurely as party chief, and the ruthless Lavrenti Beria, head of the KGB, plots his own ascension. The monolith is in transition, and the U.S. and Britain launch a secret commando raid to overthrow the Soviet- dominated government of Albania...
...reason was familiar and chilling: a murderous blackmailer intent on intimidating a corporation by poisoning its products. A man calling himself Gary telephoned ABC News claiming he had placed 25 tainted Contac capsules in stores throughout the country. ABC Anchor Peter Jennings tipped off SmithKline while judiciously holding the story off the air. The next day, SmithKline got more calls, apparently from the same man. All capsules were unsafe, he said, and he wanted to get them off the shelves...
...familiar "freedom of the press" counter-argument has opposed these laws. It has been less frequently noted, however, that the causal connection between pornography and rape is tenuous, at best. When the the Supreme Court affirmed that the Indianapolis version of these anti-porn laws was unconstitutional, it did so solely on First Amendment grounds...