Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terminate Candy's pregnancy. Homer, around their age, returns to Wally's farm with him and joins the apple-picking migrants in their seasonal labor. From there, Homer begins an even greater journey to make his own way in the world, a society with which he is almost completely unfamiliar because of his sheltered existence with Larch and the orphans...
...advised the 25,000 franchise owners to switch to the Carl Saganesque "billions and billions." I didn't buy one word of it. So I stopped at my McDonald's on 34th Street in Manhattan, which has a 99 BILLION SERVED sign. Manager Eddie Correa said he was unfamiliar with the Biennial Edict and hadn't thought about changing the sign during his two years with the company. Dissatisfied, I ate a double cheeseburger...
Both the festivity and the pervading spirit of optimism could be traced to an declaration last Wednesday that researchers working on the Human Genome Project had successfully decoded an entire human chromosome--an incredible milestone for the field of genetics and for science in general. For those unfamiliar with the history behind the announcement, the Human Genome Project is a public initiative that was started in 1990 and that involves a consortium of universities from around the world (it is financed in the United States by the National Institutes of Health). The ultimate goal is to map each and every...
...this day, thanks to the generosity of the museum, over 500 square feet of canvas was allowed to shed its synthetic cocoon. For those unfamiliar with the enormous scale in which Rothko worked, this area refers not to the mural series as a whole, but rather only to a single panel, Panel #2 in this case. Three rectangles floating vertically in space connected at top and bottom by tensioned weights, Panel #2's chromatic range is now a pale blue denim rinse. Before its deterioration, the painting was of a fabled crimson complexion. Rothko's Harvard murals have been deemed...
When Harvard made the decision to outsource security, it took a risk. An outside organization would handle hiring and firing guards, providing their pay and benefits schedules and generally remove responsibility for the quality of individual guards from Harvard's plate. In exchange, Harvard would face mostly unfamiliar guards who do not know campus or the students and employees who may change often. Harvard must acknowledge the risks in this experiment; as these early reports have shown, the gamble may not be going so well...