Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Local folk singer Eric Kilborn gave the more than 300 local activists gathered on the Cambridge Common last night the old-time favorites they wanted to hear. The group, which supports the proposed U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms treaty, joined Kilborn in singing tunes such as "Give Peace a Chance...
...march was escorted by two Cambridge Police cruisers, and proceeded peacefully from the Common, through Harvard Sqare, and down Massachusetts Avenue toward Cambridge City Hall. Marchers carried signs and banners with slogans such as "The INF Treaty: A First Step," and "2000 Warheads Down, 48,000 to Go." The procession stretched for over a half-mile and took up an entire lane of Mass...
...come to Albuquerque for an intensive six-day workshop on the holistic management of natural resources: land, water, livestock and wildlife. Savory's special genius is combining high-minded idealism with thoroughgoing practicality, and he has a nose for generating profit in the process. His penchant for common sense is constantly fired by an indignation at how we have neglected our lands. "Nobody seems to care," he says, "and all the remedies have fallen short...
...wealth, including investors and bankers, and the people who borrow the money, such as farmers, businessmen and consumers. In his analysis, Greider takes a viewpoint that is heretical to Wall Street. Like the prairie Populists of the late 19th century, he argues that moderate inflation is beneficial to the common man. Economic growth is spurred by inflation as long as it does not get out of control. More important, it eases debt because borrowers can pay back their loans with money that has been devalued. Stable money is the ideal, Greider believes, only for the holders of wealth...
Although Reagan and Gorbachev will meet only to sign a treaty on medium- range nuclear missiles, their common interests could lead to better relations. -- The President sticks by Star Wars despite budget cuts and discouraging evidence from laboratories. -- In Atlanta and Oakdale, La., bureaucratic bungling leads to riots by Cuban prisoners. -- Chicago mourns its mayor...