Word: familiar
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Some of what the new leadership is saying sounds familiar, such as Reuss's assertion that GM can't afford more talk about being merely "competitive" with Asian carmakers but instead must build "the best" vehicles. He also probes deeper: "We have to rebuild our relationships with customers," says Reuss, who was in charge of GM's engineering organization before his promotion and now openly volunteers that he is disappointed by GM's poor showing in the recent Consumer Reports rankings of vehicle quality and dependability. Reuss blames the bad rankings on an internal GM culture in which employees were...
...familiar baritone comes...
When Tiger Woods won his first Masters Tournament, Jack Nicklaus famously quoted Bobby Jones by saying that “he plays a game of which I am not familiar.” The aftermath of the recent Tiger Woods scandal has left Tiger in a situation extremely unfamiliar to him. What started out as a news story that covered Woods’s health when he got into a late-night car accident outside his home in Windermere, Fla., quickly turned into speculation about his family and personal life. While some of the details have been blurred surrounding...
...snippets from radio broadcasts further broadens the scope of the show, and it seems that this decision—to emphasize the many over the few, to make the story about high school instead of a hackneyed teen romance—is what distinguishes the play from the more familiar version of “Grease.” In this, Walker has succeeded...
...taken to the home of the dashing and devilish Dr. Thomas Parker (Adam M. Lathram), where his charming wife Meredith (Megan L. Amram ’10) and daughter Shelley (Samara R. Oster ’13) take charge of his care. What unfolds is a story familiar in its conception if not in its ultimate resolution. Slowly but surely, the strange monster is civilized, though the religious townspeople continue to live in a hypocritical state of fear of this foreign creature (his strangeness cemented in the humorous acquisition of a British accent); once their cautious acceptance is granted...