Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days Reno had been meeting privately with her top lawyers to figure out if she had grounds to appoint an independent counsel. The fact that everyone from editorial-page editors to Trent Lott to Common Cause reformers was hollering for one meant little to her. Reno's critics were reading the independent-counsel statute; she was reading the criminal code. And she saw a big, fat exception to the law making it a crime to raise money on federal property. The loophole opened in 1979, when Congress inadvertently tightened the definition of "contribution" from money donated for "any political purpose...
Nothing sinister was at work. Soft money had hardly been minted in those days; lawmakers simply wanted to reconcile the wording in two different statutes. "They weren't trying to do anything sneaky," says Fred Wertheimer, former head of Common Cause. But even if the loophole was opened by accident, Reno and her lawyers concluded, the restrictions did not apply to the hundreds of millions of dollars in unregulated, soft-money contributions...
...earlier discussed euthanasia. Many were in great pain in the last days of life and were given morphine, which eased their suffering but also hastened death. The government has proposed tighter controls of these nonrequest cases, but practitioners say Holland's candor has merely thrown light on a common, if little discussed, medical practice. "Doctors all over the world shorten the lives of patients under the cover of pain reduction, and only we are stupid enough to talk about it," says Bert Keizer, a nursing home physician in Amsterdam, whose memoir about his life among the dying, Dancing with Mister...
Regardless of the particular field they work in, student entrepreneurs have several attributes in common...
...just kind of jump in," says Goel, a Crimson editor. "A lot of the stuff is common sense. You know that you need to get something so you go buy it and you pay your bills...