Word: unfamiliar
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...side holding back could make the whole structure disintegrate. And while the Democrats can praise Reich's book and use some of his ideas for the 1984 platform, it is going to be hard for them to push labor into abandoning their hold on the smokestacks and going into unfamiliar and largely non-union high tech waters. The problems are there and Reich clearly elucidates them. But whether his calls are loud enough to get people moving is the real question...
...explosion of unfamiliar labels, though, can cause problems. Some experts fear that the new arrivals will create confusion and swamp an already crowded market...
...defectors. Sunny's Halo's groom and best friend, John ("Top Cat") Sears Jr., said, "It's been him, Dave and me. I rub him. Dave walks him." They both walked him into the winner's circle to a spontaneous chorus of O Canada-an unfamiliar sound at Churchill Downs. Not since 1964 (Northern Dancer) had a horse bred in Canada won the Kentucky Derby, and he is the first winner to prepare successfully at the Arkansas Derby in Hot Springs. Canada's best two-year-old in 1982, Sunny's Halo won that...
Yesterday's victory came down to the second doubles contest between Harvard's Warren Grossman and Rob Loud and Clemson's Andy Krantz and Miguel Nido. The other two doubles matches were played outdoors, and Harvard took both in two sets. But flakes of quickly melting precipitation were too unfamiliar to the men from the South, so the deciding match moved indoors from the cold to Palmer-Dixon Courts...
Kaminskaya's most significant criminal case is both a lesson in unfamiliar Soviet legal procedure and a riveting mystery thriller. In 1967 the parents of a 16-year-old boy, Sasha, engaged her to represent him in a sensational case. Sasha and his pal Alik had been charged with the rape and murder of their classmate Marina in a village outside Moscow. During six months of pretrial detention the boys had confessed, then recanted. The prosecution's star witness was an old woman who claimed to have heard Marina cry out as the three youngsters passed under...