Word: reacquaint
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...Infantry Division, a spearhead in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Like those cycling in and out of Fort Hood, many soldiers at Fort Carson have endured at least two tours of duty, some three or more, sometimes with only a few months sandwiched in for them to reacquaint themselves with their families. Since 2007, eight men - all from a single combat-weary 500-man infantry battalion nicknamed Lethal Warriors - have been charged with carrying out a string of murders and attempted murders in Colorado Springs. So far, four have been convicted. In a drive-by shooting, a young couple was killed...
Though FlyBy predicts most will simply be surprised or amused to see Faith ambling across the Yard, Cox, who will remain on faculty post-retirement as a part-time research professor, hopes that his send-off exercise will help "reacquaint people with crops and animals and where food actually comes from...
...tough call. On the one hand, I could get a new car, reacquaint myself with some of the tax dollars I so patriotically pay, and-who knows?-maybe help out a polar bear or two. On the other hand, something about this past year has me feeling less than flush...
...says Denny's CEO Nelson Marchioli. "We said 'free' makes a lot of sense to us in this economy - with all the other offers the consumer is getting slammed with, we really need to come out and do something that people will stand up and notice. We need to reacquaint the consumer with Denny's." (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...work, but my mind was focused on cream puffs - specifically, the ones whose sublime vanilla-bean-flecked custard nestles in a cradle of chocolate choux. During a trip to Japan last year, I had eaten a not insignificant number of these pastries, and I relished the opportunity to reacquaint myself with their virtues. But when I sidled up to a Tokyo store's cream-puff section - yes, there is a fridge shelf dedicated to this particular genre of baked goods in many Japanese groceries - to my great distress, my favorite dessert was nowhere to be found. Like so many food...