Word: unfamiliarly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used his energy in other ways, assuming the social and intramural mantles for his freshman and upperclass dorms, becoming an All-Ivy athlete in an unfamiliar sport, refereeing some 1000 intramural basketball games, and making plans to marry his high school sweetheart later this month...
...improving picture, however, is pockmarked by a potentially serious new problem: management missteps. Deregulation has enabled thrifts to plunge into new, riskier ventures in areas with which many of them are unfamiliar. While thrifts once concentrated on inherently stable home loans, they now lend money for everything from casino construction to consumer vacation trips. In most cases the thrifts simply want to earn enough to account for the competitive rates they are paying to savers. But in a few other cases managers have been overtaken by lofty growth goals and carelessness. Example: federal regulators last month bailed out Beverly Hills...
...this should not be grounds for convening a committee that is unfamiliar to administrators, the media, Faculty and students, let alone its own constituents...
Fellow Co-Captain Dave Beckman won an easy match at second singles, 6-2, 6-2. The second position was an unfamiliar one for Beckman, who has played third singles all year...
Technology is already starting to affect the was in which students prepare for classes in several of our professional schools. Last fall, the Business School began requiring every entering student to purchase and IBM personal computer. Those who were unfamiliar with these machines received special instruction in their use Software was distributed to enable students to manipulate financial data. Word processing programs were provided to assist students in preparing their reports. Because of the formidable powers of the personal computer, teachers could assign more complicated problems than before, problems that more closely resembled situations confronting corporate executives in real life...