Word: commonality
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...year-old patriarch of Columbus, Ind., who used to run Cummins Engine Co. "Both are in our culture. The adversarial and the cooperative need to be kept in balance, and they are a little out of whack." Two centuries ago, the colonists wondered whether they had enough in common to become a united nation at all. Ever since, each generation has struggled with the uniquely American faith that community and freedom must be compatible. It may be that the greater glory of the place is that we are able to be so divided over so many things yet still keep...
...Phelpses are trying to hang on, but many of the 75 other families still ranching in the county are just waiting for the right deal. In the lush valley bottomland along the Gunnison, Slate and East rivers, FOR SALE signs are almost as common as cottonwoods. Countywide, 13,000 acres of ranchland have been sold for development in the past two years; of the 75,000 prime acres that remain, 17,500 are for sale. Development's pace is fastest at the northern head of the valley, where the funky ski town of Crested Butte is a money magnet. Opulent...
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands: The crisis that threatened the launch of Europe's common currency was defused late Monday after EU leaders reached a compromise deal that meets Germany's concerns for a stable euro and French demands for job creation. The agreement will free up hundreds of millions of dollars for job-creating strategies, giving priority to small and mid-sized companies. But for France, there will be no free lunch. Addressing German concerns, Dutch Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm warned that the funds must be paid back in full. "There is no suggestion lots of subsidies will be handed...
DIED. J. ANTHONY LUKAS, 64, Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist whose scrupulously detailed books explored America's great divides; by his own hand; in New York City. The individual was the starting point for his work, as in Common Ground, an examination of three families linked and separated by Boston's busing initiative. (See Eulogy below...
...national conscience. It worked too. Every subject he wrote about remains lodged in the mind through the personification that he found for it, from Linda Fitzpatrick, the suburban girl who became fatally involved with the late-1960s counterculture, to Rachel Twymon, the Job-like Boston-ghetto mother in Common Ground. They may be gone now, but they're still alive in Tony's work...