Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite transition periods to Western ways in Europe or elsewhere, African students must also face the minor adjustment problems familiar to most other Harvard neophytes. The food and the weather present the most obvious changes...
...aspirin could save 100,000 lives a year in the U.S. Heart disease, it seems, may be finally giving way to treatments both old and new, including both aspirin and artificial clot-dissolving drugs, and a growing concern about exercise, diet and smoking. But just how effective the familiar pills from the family medicine chest are in preventing heart attacks remains something of a mystery...
...began to look strangely familiar...
...Reagan Administration was determined not to be outflanked yet again by the Sandinistas on the battlefield of public opinion. In a White House speech to supporters last week, Ronald Reagan sounded a familiar theme, arguing that continued contra pressure is needed to ensure that the Sandinistas keep their word. "We must make sure that each time the Sandinistas walk through a new door toward democracy, we close it behind them -- and keep it closed," Reagan declared. "Only the freedom fighters can do that." Despite recent Nicaraguan concessions, including a bow to Washington's long sought demand that the Sandinistas talk...
...dire condition of the nation's urban school systems is by now a familiar story, but some hard facts and illuminating incidents bear telling...