Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bankruptcies in the depressed Energy Belt are almost as common as ten-gallon hats, but the Texan who filed papers last week was no ordinary sad case: John Connally, 70, former Treasury Secretary, three-term Texas Governor and onetime presidential candidate. Connally applied under Chapter 11 for personal bankruptcy protection and under Chapter 7 to liquidate the failed real estate business he owned with Partner Ben Barnes, a former Lieutenant Governor. Between them, they owe an estimated $170 million...
...become common practice for PBH to borrow the shuttle buses under an informal agreement with the University, MacDonald said. A Harvard official said yesterday that he was unsure what liability, if any, the University would have assumed if any children were injured...
...Interior renovations in two Cabot House Halls--Cabot and Whitman--will be completed by September 15, although work will continue through the fall on the basements and possibly also on the common rooms...
...other hand, my God has about as much in common with Oral Roberts' blackmailer as with the nothingness of the atheists. And Jim and Tammy Bakker's shenanigans are almost enough to make me swear off organized religion forever...
What do female college graduates have in common with male high-school dropouts? On average, they have been earning roughly the same amount of money: $20,000 for the women and $19,000 for the men. That is one of the dismaying findings of an economic study titled The American Woman 1987-88, which was released by the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues...