Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exert control over factory operations by placing "state orders" that effectively determine how much factories produce. Plans exist to revitalize the agricultural sector with a podryad, or contract, arrangement modeled on the highly successful family-contract system instituted by China. But this land- leasing scheme has not yet become common enough to indicate whether it will galvanize the Soviet Union's underproductive farms...
...rule rather than the exception. The number of jobs in his local has dropped from 450 to 250 in the past 15 years. Though the Forrester children have done far better than some of their counterparts elsewhere who work at minimum-wage jobs, they still face a stark choice common to many high school-educated children of blue-collar workers: either to make it into a well-paid but precarious union job or to walk off an economic cliff into a nonunion service-sector job that pays a fraction of such wages...
...customary Olympic isms -- commercialism and jingoism -- were common colds next to the pestilence of cynicism, sexism and racism spread by the mere fact of anabolic steroids and by a rampant suspicion that Johnson's miscalculation was not in usage but in dosage. The Jamaican-born Canadian with fast feet and a slow tongue muscled himself up to a point where he could hoist an entire country onto the gold-medal platform. His 100-meter dash was a sensation. Then, when he let Canada down, it disowned him entirely. Unreserved witnesses stirred by his false accomplishment took precautions never...
This intense need for response explores human, and especially male, needs more than it allows Bogosian to satirize societal convention. For Bogosian, the lunacy and sadness of modern life come from the roles we are forced into playing. In depicting some of these roles, he captures a common desire to reach out, to be saved...
Choo and the other Winthrop grill managers plan to use entertainment to improve their business. "We want there to be a common theme" for the grill, Choo says...