Word: commoners
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Additionally, both Kapoor and Solmon Chowdhury—who owns Om restaurant next door—said that Dhanda has been charging tenants for common building space maintenance at rates that are far above average...
While restaurant owner Vinod Kapoor has been embroiled in a lawsuit with landlord Raj Dhanda in a dispute over common area maintenance charges since February, sales have dipped approximately 40 percent in the past year, Kapoor said...
...destined for Kirkland. Moving in this fall was admittedly ridiculous. My storage boxes were plastered with three separate Houses’ identification stickers. I assumed my fourth and final mailing address of my college career. For the first time since freshman year, I was living in a common room. But re-adjusting yet another time was beyond worth it. Kirkland welcomed me, as the other Houses had, with open arms, and by now I feel like I’ve lived there forever. Any Matherites reading this are probably scandalized at this point, but Jerk-land honestly isn?...
...1860s became pejoratively known as Copperheads - after a Southeastern snake that attacks without warning - for their opposition to the Civil War. Peace Democrats were mainly recent settlers of the Midwest (Ohio, Indiana and Illinois) with Southern roots and an interest in maintaining the Union, and they made common cause with Northern groups who opposed emancipation and the draft. The antidraft riots of 1863 - dramatized in the 2002 Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York - were sparked by opposition to the government's recently passed Conscription Act and, in part, by fears among Irish immigrants that freed slaves would come North...
...German request, bombed the two stranded tankers while civilians were siphoning free fuel. The death toll - more than 125 Afghans perished, nearly half of them civilians - overshadowed the gruesome fact that the Taliban had beheaded one of the tanker drivers. Beheadings and killings of NATO supply drivers are a common occurrence, according to several private security contractors. (See pictures of the U.S. military's cat-and-mouse game with the Taliban...