Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...page audit, which was prepared by the European Court of Auditors and promptly leaked to the West German weekly Stern, disclosed that the commissioners, who administer the E.C., had run up expenses that cost taxpayers from the nine Common Market nations a total of $1.4 million last year. In addition the commissioners were paid $2.1 million in salaries and allowances. The auditors turned up such items as Jenkins' $3,842 bill for liquor consumed in his Brussels office, Danish Commissioner Finn Olav Gundelach's $126,993 transportation tab, and West German Commissioner Wilhelm Haferkamp...
...European thrift mentality may not be immediately apparent to tourists, but it is strong. Do-it-yourself repairing is popular, meatless days are common, fast foods are rare, and big ticket appliances like washers, dryers and dishwashers are not considered necessities. Shopping is done carefully, with the emphasis on price and quality. Cars may be expensive, but they will be owned for nearly a decade and revitalized with new engines rather than traded in after three years. Executives may buy an expensive tailor-made suit, but it will be made to last seven or more years. Foreign holidays...
About two dozen people strolled past a quartet of toothless old men outside Cothern's General Store in Riddleton to meet Gore inside the combination grocery store-post office-lending library. Bill Cothern, 30, the store's proprietor, protested the inflation. "How is the common man going to make it?" he asked. "The prices of stuff on my shelves is climbing. It's just disgusting. How much longer can we stand this?" Gore responded by asking how many in his small audience favored wage-and-price controls. All but two raised their hands...
...another symptom of national decline. As one troubled Londoner complained to TIME, many Britons "have been made to feel that they don't belong to their own country any more." A white lawyer, speaking about a visit to the capital's racially mixed Peckham area, expressed a common lament: "I felt completely alien. I felt pressure...
...rational. We hold back from the leap of despair that would let us see that human society always carries within it the capacity to commit such butcheries and think well of itself. Yet as World War II recedes into the past, the death camps have become part of the common memory of those who were neither victims nor executioners, but who share uncomfortably the humanity of each...