While serving, Berry worked with Randolph Churchill and made the acquaintance of a Major James Riddell, who announced that he wrote children's books and that, once they were demobilised, he would like Berry to illustrate them.
A few weeks earlier, an acquaintance at another major foundation, who advises wealthy donors, said that he'd never heard any of his clients ask how to help Iraqis, or alleviate some of the pain caused a war that's 5-years-old and aging.
For Mr. Voinovich's narrator -- who presents himself as an acquaintance of the major characters -- the lesson of Aglaya's story is simple: "The generations are no better or worse than each other; their beliefs, mistakes and behavior depend on the historical and personal circumstances in which they grow up.
Native English speakers can, however, gain important intellectual and career opportunities by following Montgomery's example and acquiring at least a working acquaintance with other major world languages.
Mr. Shahzad is the son of a retired senior Pakistani Air Force officer, and it appeared that the arrested army major was an acquaintance of Mr. Shahzad's father, according to a British terrorism expert, Sajjan Gohel, who is familiar with the investigation into the Times Square bombing.
Investigators characterized the operation as an informal arrangement among a network of acquaintances rather than as a major drug ring.
"Why are the British police announcing such old news as their major discoveries?" a Tunisian acquaintance – a government official – wondered.
Another scientist of my acquaintance, a prominent researcher at a major state university and a leader in his field, just lost his NSF grant after 15 years.
Until that time, my acquaintance with the Cardinals and other major league baseball players was solely through the cards on the back of Post cereal boxes.
An acquaintance of mine who is a major literary agent told me recently that the literature that defines the 21st century will be produced in this and other new ways.
