Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brazilian market consists mostly of banks and manufacturers. In a nation in which wages average $160 a month, few families can afford computers. But the machines are popping up in some unfamiliar places. They help shrimp farmers determine how much feed to use, and the government has begun installing them in the offices of the country's 69 federal Senators. The legislators will use the computers to keep track of everything from the size of last year's soybean crop to the names of the children of their most influential constituents...
Mabony attributed part of the varsity's troubles to unfamiliar equipment, surroundings and teammates adding that she expects the team to come together as a scrappy boat with a lot of finesse...
...last night's opening moments, the Crimson would have had trouble treading the water back on Soldiers Field. For it wasn't just the unfamiliar artificial turf of Nickerson Field, or just the inspired play of the visiting Blue Hens that accounted for URI's 1-0 lead five minutes into the game...
...parties that marked previous anniversaries--focused on themes of unity within the Black community. A series of seminars tried to reinforce this sense of solidarity. A free film, which documented Malcolm X's contributions to the Civil Rights Movement, was attended by a diverse group, many of whom were unfamiliar with his life...
Others contend external threats require such restrictions, but fundamental political liberties are nonnegotiable. Every generations has forced its own threats...whether mushroom clouds and evil empires or invading armies and economic crises. To justify unprecedented compromises of traditional civil rights for supposedly unfamiliar dangers launches a journey all too familiar in history. Ultimately, that's a realization both those inside and outside this Administration should remember more often...