Its supporters claim that it doesn't say what it says, or, even if it did, that the government would be careful and discreet — that the N.S.A. would never, say, go after an American without a warrant by using a foreign acquaintance as a straw target.
But I can see nothing wildly exciting about getting a fugitive acquaintance with foreign places.
"I remember watching a foreign film with some American acquaintances, and there was a scene where an older guy with a bit of paunch got naked to take a shower, and their reaction was basically, 'ew! gross!'" She recounts.
They will do much to humanize you, the strange teacher, to others and are a great way to stimulate conversation among foreign colleagues, students, and new acquaintances.
I speak three foreign languages and have friends and acquaintances from close to 100 countries, many of which I have visited.
With my own foreign name, I experience daily how new acquaintances stumble on the name, or simply don't use it as casually as they would an easier/more familiar name.
I have a nodding acquaintance with polling, so I understand that foreign aid might be the least popular federal program right now, second only to black helicopters.
State highway engineer Hugh L. Sloan appointed old acquaintance Fred Lavis, a consulting engineer who had worked on foreign rail lines and the Panama Canal and written four books on locating and designing rail lines, to design this Route 1 Extension.
To friends and acquaintances, von Habsburg presented himself variously as an expert in foreign-currency markets, an investment banker, a stockbroker, a former retail baron, the head of an arbitrage firm, a private-equity manager, and a real-estate developer.
No sooner had Dwight Eisenhower taken office than he told an acquaintance that it was going to be damned difficult to conduct a foreign policy based on the delusion that China was an offshore island.
