Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death of suites-with-common rooms (Currier rooms consist almost entirely of pairs of singles connected by bathrooms or sinkrooms) means that you must venture outside your own room to socialize, with the result that Currier residents actually get to know the House Tutors and form close friendships with people outside their rooming group. My blocking group, for example, has merged so successfully with two other blocking groups that hardly anyone remembers who was originally in which group, and no one cares. I have heard of similar situations in the other Quad houses, though suites are more common there...
...first stipulate some common truths. By any Western standard, Mozambique, Eritrea, Mali and Ghana are countries in awful straits. Their statistics still show an abysmal record of poverty, illiteracy, early mortality. While all four have achieved a dose of national economic success, with higher growth rates, lower inflation and more stable currencies that flow from obedience to stringent International Monetary Fund reform programs, they have yet to see their growing wealth trickle down very far. For ordinary citizens, daily hardships are intense: few jobs, few schools, few hospitals, poor diets, rising prices, no money. For the majorities of these populations...
...first book was by David and Tom Gardner, a brother act in jester hats with the catchy title of Motley Fool Investment Guide. The second, The Whiz Kid of Wall Street's Investment Guide, was by Matt Seto, 17. The third was the now infamous debut, Beardstown Ladies' Common-Sense Investment Guide, by a 14-member investment club from Beardstown, Ill., a lovable but math-challenged gaggle of stock-picking grandmas...
...ubiquitous has Spock's name become that hardly anyone remembers the title of his most famous book, which has sold 50 million copies in 42 languages. In fact, there were two titles. The hardcover edition, published in 1946, was called The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care; the paperback, priced at 25[cents], was The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care...
...grouping women with children a raging anachronism? Should not any self-respecting modern person, let alone feminist, object to it as patronizing and demeaning to women? Yet its usuage is as common today as it was in 1912. Consider these examples taken almost at random from recent newspapers...