Word: acquainted
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Bogden says he came to the Ed School in 1981 as a respite from the pressures of his job, and to explore the more theoretical aspects of education. "I wanted to acquaint myself with some more cerebral ideas, to get an exposure to the broad spectrum of issues that the Ed School focused on, like labor relations, computers in education, historical perspectives on education and politics and education...
When charges of racism hit Harvard police as well councilors voted to include University representatives in the group Ball, a member of the Harvard Third World Student Alliance, said yesterday that having a student on the committee "will acquaint Cambridge people with the fact that Harvard students have the same concerns with Harvard and Cambridge police...
...Flying Club offers its members discount rates in ground school, flight training and plane rental. It also helps to acquaint licensed pilots with navigation techniques for the New England area...
...They [the lectures] will be presented at conferences designed to acquaint foreigners with specific areas of American history," he explains...
Aware of these problems, United Technologies deliberately set its goals low. When the program started last December, John Bennett, corporate director of data processing, noted that one of the principal aims of the project was just to acquaint executives with the possibilities of the personal computer. Predicted Bennett: "Only 20% will become day-to-day users. Another 40% will use theirs occasionally, and I suspect the remainder of the computers will drift toward users' homes...