Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Technology, too, serves to make our liaisons more dangerous. Rob Lowe was apparently uncovered by a videotape, common-law suitors are often betrayed by photographs, and, in response to all this, more and more people choose to interface, date or even make love over the phone. If a modern Juliet were to try to reach her lover before feigning her own death, she might well hear, "Hi! This is Romeo! Nobody's here right...
...protection an average of $225,000 a year. De Becker provides the staffs and publicists of celebrities with 20 pointers to help them screen letters or calls. A direct threat is not necessarily a good indicator of true danger, he says. " 'I'm going to kill you' is as common as a fan letter to many of these people." But, he adds, "it becomes different if someone says, 'I've sold my house, and I'm coming to get you.' " De Becker and his staff of 31 are currently keeping tabs on 5,400 people who may pose a safety...
...Bill Bradley is a Democrat who has been hammering away at the importance of the Third World debt issue for years. He praises the Bush Administration for realizing that "the answer to the problem of too much debt is not more debt but less." That may sound like mere common sense, but Republicans must overcome a distrust of giveaways and interference in the private sector. "It is an ideological breakthrough," says former Assistant Secretary of State Robert Hormats...
Tallying and analyzing their data at the end of a year, the investigators found that the cats had claimed almost 1,100 items of prey, 64% consisting of small mammals: mostly wood mice, field voles and common shrews, interspersed with an occasional rabbit, weasel or pipistrelle bat. The remaining victims, all birds, included sparrows, song thrushes, blackbirds and robins...
What's so good about the free market is that when subject to reasonable government scrutiny to ensure fair play, it tends to harness people's selfishness for the common good, so that in pursuing their own greedy little ends they also tend to work toward satisfying the needs of others. Why? Because the more you satisfy other people's wishes, the more richly you are rewarded. Good waiters get better tips. None of this is new, but it seems finally to have been accepted in large measure throughout the world. Twenty- six years ago, selling your jeans could land...