Word: familiarize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...People who are familiar with [Ceder's] scholarship say that she is a superb teacher and has earned a strong reputation," he said. "She is interested in both the teaching and administrative ends of this work...
...surveys show that 60% of Americans favor repealing an inheritance tax that is levied on only the wealthiest 2% of the population? I'd guess that the reason could be expressed with a motto that has been used by the New York Lottery: "Hey, you never know." I'm familiar with that feeling. For years I've fantasized about inheriting a pile of money from someone I've never heard of, and frankly, I'm not eager to pay taxes...
MONKEY BUSINESS It all sounds eerily familiar. The government wants to take a beloved child from one family because the tyke has another, more closely related family somewhere else. But many consider that place to be little better than a prison. This time it's Brooklyn, not Miami; the youngster in question is a monkey, not a little boy; and the state wants to send the monkey to a Detroit zoo. So how close are the two tales...
...teach high schoolers how not to take the SAT. An average student, Joe nails all the easy questions (except for the ones he makes careless mistakes on) and misses all the hard ones. Once students are armed with this knowledge, "What would Joe do?" becomes a question rivaling the familiar bumper sticker query in cosmic importance. On hard questions, you probe the answer choices for the likely Joe Bloggs answer--that is, the most appealing (read: wrong) answer. When you identify the answer Joe would pick and eliminate it, you can guess from the remaining four choices, statistically upping your...
...Pilsudski Way, is identical to his and the other two dozen or so squat brick buildings that make up the Old Colony projects. As I sit on the futon, squinting in the dim light to make out the words of his best-selling memoir All Souls, the familiar street names and locations seem to jump out at me. Outside, I can hear the children playing and adults chatting on stoops, just as they have done for decades...