Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Public accommodations cases had become less common in recent years, but Commissioner Kathleen M. Allen says, "it has started to increase again because issues of sex and race are pertinent again." Allen says the publicity surrounding recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions against single sex clubs has put this type of complaint back in the public eye. Most complainants file claims of gender or racial discrimination...
...Jackson made his emotional plea for us to find "common ground" this past summer, I sat mesmerized by the eloquence of his words and the power of his message. I was overwhelmed by the progress this nation had made toward racial justice--until the speech was disrupted by the men sitting next...
...bottom line is the same," he said. "There is a common sense of mission...
...movement's younger radicals gained greater control, such actions grew more common, often pitting the Maoist urban students againstpeasants, who remained unswayed by assertions oflocal officials' wrongdoings, he said...
...added cost but very common for anyurban site," said Spiegelman, who served as headof the Cambridge Community Development Departmentbefore taking her Harvard post