Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Love) were launched on little more than a wing, a prayer, a guitar riff, a tom-tom beat and a horn chart written by Gil Evans (Miles Davis' collaborator on Sketches of Spain). It is not only talent that makes these songs work, it's a finding of common ground between Robertson and the Dublin boys so sudden and intense that the discovery ignites the songs. U2 squires him into 1987; he gives them heft, antecedents and even a little history lesson...
Cloninger's work added key pieces to the puzzle of alcoholism by suggesting traits that certain types of alcoholics have in common. For example, Cloninger found that his male-limited alcoholics tended to be aggressive, even violent types. He hypothesizes that the nervous system underlying such behavior may react to alcohol in a way that quickly leads to dependence. "It's not proved," says Cloninger. "It's testable." Says Boris Tabakoff of the NIAAA: "For those of us looking for biological markers, Dr. Cloninger's work gives us a road map we can follow to link genetic traits to behavior...
...however much the public might view the story as Peeping Tomism. Further, though he knew that he in particular would get close scrutiny, Hart practiced his high-risk life-style after becoming a serious candidate. The occasional use of pot by Gore and Babbitt years previously, when it was common among young people, may have been a legal infraction. But no one has argued that these offenses say anything at all about their qualifications or character today...
...Herald. In covering Dukakis' belated admission that his aides had leaked the anti-Biden tapes, the tabloid devoted 18 articles to the subject, consuming all the news space in the first eleven pages of its Oct. 1 edition. With that degree of excess in the system, the groping toward common sense discerned by Stephen Hess clearly...
...teams have never met, but Harvard and Adelphi have faced four common opponents during the season--UConn, Hartwick, Cornell and Columbia--and the results have been almost identical...