Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money supply generally within its guidelines, accepting weekly blips and bumps in the figures as an inevitable result of the system. Says Princeton University Economist David Bradford: "The Fed is doing what has to be done. I am convinced that Volcker is being attacked by people who are unfamiliar with economic truths...
...entire Crimson squad saw action last night, and no one made into double figures. An enthusiastic reading period crowd of about 100 people saw some razzle-dazzle from unfamiliar sources: Bob McCabe rejecting jump shots into the fourth row and scoring eight points; Tom Clarke handling the ball confidently and chipping in two buckets and two assists; and Jeff Sinek, the hero at the buzzer, netting three of four from the floor...
Even if the Reagan Administration continues to hold back emergency shipments of grain to Poland, it ought to make available the mountains of stockpiled cheeses. There would be no doubt among Poles as to where these unfamiliar-tasting cheeses came from...
...Boulez. The former enfant terrible of French composers, who combines a brilliant mathematical mind with an expert musical ear, Boulez has been the chief theoretician of the postwar serialist movement. During his tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1971 to 1977, he introduced audiences to unfamiliar repertory by familiar composers like Liszt, and startled them with lucid, penetrating readings of standards like Debussy's La Mer. Under his baton the orchestra reached a level of technical precision that it had lacked for years under his predecessor, Leonard Bernstein. From 1976 to 1980, Boulez presided over...
...with his family, but as soon as his return was reported, a second trauma began. Within days, more than two dozen people called or turned up at the Stayner home, checks in hand, to buy rights to his unique story. Bewildered, the family turned to their attorney. He was unfamiliar with the new problems they faced, but he was able to recommend just the sort of protector they wanted. No fast-talking, hard-driving angle bender, their choice instead was a lawyer who started practicing only five years ago and who acknowledges, "I'm middleaged, somewhat overweight...