Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some sense, perhaps, it does too good a job," says Edward B. Feinman, a spokesperson for the Today's Independents. "The need for diversity is important, but so is the need for common goals...
...Under common mortgage-lending standards, people can pay three times their salary for a home price. $70,000 is three times a salary of $23,333, which is below the median income for rent-control tenants. So Proposition I really does provide a choice of affordable homeownership...
Feinman says that because each councillor is responsible to a small minority of the voters, there is no incentive to seek common ground. As a result, he says, councillors spend more time arguing than trying to implement effective policies...
...debris must be cleared away and planners must construct something new, has not been addressed. No one -- not Mikhail Gorbachev, not George Bush, not any of the bloc's reform-minded leaders -- has presented a blueprint for the future of the Continent as a whole. Will Gorbachev's "common European house" mean political as well as economic integration with the West? Will the Warsaw Pact remain intact? Will the two Germanys reunify? "Before you start taking an old structure down," says Karel Doudera, a Czech expert on German affairs, "it is not a bad idea to have in hand...
Many shrug off quakes but fret about nuclear power and radiation. That kind of paradox has become common among Americans generally. But just what constitutes an acceptable risk? -- After the Bay Area shake-up, Los Angeles could be next. -- On the opposite coast, the sound of rebuilding echoes in the wake of Hurricane Hugo. -- How five U.S. Senators helped save a shaky S&L that will cost taxpayers $2.5 billion...