Word: relearned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to put them together started after the 1967 war with the seizure of the West Bank. "Many of my friends who had studied in America began to be drawn back, and I began to be involved in the re-emergence of Palestinian nationalism." He set out to relearn classical Arabic. He got extra encouragement from his wife Mariam Cortas, the daughter of a Lebanese educator. "Mariam also grew up in the Middle East, but in an entirely Arab system...
...someone who has his hands on all the ropes, who has an intimate knowledge of every facet of Harvard student theater, who thoroughly knows every nook and cranny of the Agassiz, and replace him with someone who, for all his teaching qualifications, has to take time to rethink and relearn his experience to suit the demands of Harvard theater, probably represents the most economically inefficient decision ever made...
...bottom line is, yes, we learned the lesson of Watergate. It stuck for about 10 years, but then you have to relearn it. We ought to have a continuing sort of seminar for people who are in charge of government, because the lessons get old and need to be revived...
...vast gulf in writing skills between transfers and first-years, but their psyches are also quite far apart. Expos, dubbed by one transfer student as "the freshman experience of being away from home for the first time," is like a support group for first-years. If transfer students must relearn writing a la Harvard, at least they could have their own classes...
...Daewoo Motors, 50% of Sweden's Saab-Scania and 5% of Japan's Suzuki, and shares some manufacturing operations with both Toyota and Suzuki. Those alliances give GM global reach, but the automaker was in danger of evolving into little more than a holding company if it did not relearn how to manufacture competitive cars in its own plants...