Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Founded soon after the Gold Rush of 1849, Wells Fargo is California's oldest bank. Last week the San Francisco company, which still uses its familiar stagecoach symbol, scooped up some glittering gold dust when it agreed to pay Britain's Midland Bank $1.08 billion for Crocker National, another San Francisco bank. If the deal goes through, the combination of Wells Fargo (1985 assets: $29.4 billion) and Crocker will be the largest banking merger in U.S. history. The agreement ended six months of secret negotiations between Wells Fargo and Midland executives. No one at Crocker had known that a deal...
...face is familiar: the high-domed forehead, penetrating eyes and open, boyish smile. His image has been carried aloft like an icon by demonstrators in every major Western capital. His name has become a household word from Jerusalem to New York. Prime Ministers and Presidents, including Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, have pleaded with the Kremlin to cut short his 13-year sentence. For his sake, rabbis chained themselves to the fence of the Soviet mission to the United Nations. Most eloquent on his behalf has been his wife Avital, an Israeli citizen who has tirelessly campaigned for his release...
...course, Marcos and his supporters might have had nothing to do with the killing of their opposition. As Pacificador said, "I think it may have been the communists insurgents." Sounds familiar...
They were, all of them, human like us. Their courage and ambition took root in the familiar, sustained by circumstances and routines that everyone can recognize. On that last morning they were in preflight isolation but still a part of us. They got up and dressed, had breakfast and went to work...
Skin sells. Hugh Hefner and Bob Guccione could tell you that. But Sports Illustrated is different--so its publishers say. "If we'd wanted to go girlie, I could have given you 34 pages of nudity," managing editor Mark Mulvoy told USA Today, his comment revealing an all too familiar mixture of bravado and sexism. Managing pimp Mulvoy's macho boast should read: if I'd wanted to, I could have ordered those women to disrobe in front of the camera. Now that's exploitation, right Mark? And hey, its all a matter of money anyway...