Word: commoner
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...former mayor of Gary says he will also be working on his own research project while he is at Harvard. Hatcher is designing an economic plan he calls the "Black Common Market," in which participating American cities would be designated to produce specific goods, and all of the city governments would agree to purchase those products from member cities...
...Blacks continue to be among the poorest of the poor in this country after 100 years of so-called emancipation," Hatcher says. "Through the Black Common Market, you can seriously address that problem. I'm talking about giving people a means of sustaining and mainataining themselves. It's as American as apple...
...clear whether Gorbachev handpicked Kryuchkov as his new KGB chief, but the two shared a common patron in Yuri Andropov. Kryuchkov, whose affectionate nickname is said to be "Kryuk" (meaning hook), accompanied Gorbachev to last December's Washington summit, marking him as a man to watch. A specialist in international operations, Kryuchkov is not closely associated with repressing dissidents during Gorbachev's democratization effort. His appointment may be a signal that the Kremlin now attaches greater priority to KGB activities abroad. In the view of a U.S. State Department Soviet expert, "Gorbachev wants to narrow KGB responsibilities and get them...
...officials, and hear the false-hoods, half-truths and misrepresentations that the NRC staff was making about emergency planning. It was absolutely disgraceful. My concern was that we were reaching a decision point and that the commissioners ought to know that at least one public safety official from the common-wealth took exception with what they said," Agnes said...
Neither the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) or the Harvard Police would comment on the circumstances surrounding the attack, but Jack Morse, Harvard deputy police chief, said the Common area was under the jurisdiction of the Cambridge Police and the Harvard Police only assisted in the arrest...