Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Katherine L. Strobos '91 said that she caught a cold worrying about whether she got into a lotteried class. Quincy House residents blame one South Carolinian who hates the Northern climate. They all seem to agree that the common cold, with many symptoms and few cures, is spreading rapidly through the campus...
...safety practices. AFL- CIO officials estimate that more than one-third of the nation's 175,000 packinghouse workers -- 160 victims each day -- will suffer a serious injury or illness this year. Because meat-packing employees must work swiftly with sharp knives and cleavers, severe cuts and fractures are common. So is carpal- tunnel syndrome, a painful wrist condition caused by a repetitive chopping motion that swells tendons, pinches nerves and sometimes requires corrective surgery. Many workers in IBP's Dakota City, Neb., plant "stand on treacherously slippery floors covered with animal fat," contends Lewie Anderson, vice president...
...conventional Republican sachems who had regarded him as no more than a colorful nuisance. They have watched his partisans in four states marry religious fervor with organizational energy to win local contests that are normally ignored. Richard Bond, deputy campaign manager for Bush, says he has found a common reaction in conversations with local party leaders around the country. "It's uncanny," says Bond. "Republicans kept insisting, 'It can't happen here' -- until their doors were blasted...
Buchanan writes in an old-fashioned whiplash style and loves her work. Her best years were 1980-81, when Miami became the homicide capital of the nation; she counts 1,191 killings for the period. Many were casualties of the drug wars. She describes gunplay as common, with morning pedestrians sidestepping the night's victims, senior citizens ducking for cover in hotel lobbies, and a New Year's Eve when hundreds of Miamians celebrated by shooting out car windows, power transformers and streetlights. A twin-engine Cessna carrying five passengers landed at Miami airport that night with bullet holes...
...from chicken parts to frozen dough. The rapid expansion transformed the firm's hometown, Velika Kladusa, from an impoverished peasant village to a prosperous community of whitewashed brick homes. But it turned out that Abdic had financed much of the expansion through a type of fraud that has become common in Yugoslavia's byzantine financial system...