Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That prospective performance compares with a 4% growth last year, which was the worst since the Common Market's first full year. Earlier this year, EEC experts predicted a slowdown of lesser proportions. The German recession, however, proved more durable than anticipated; despite recent frantic efforts to revive business, a fifth of Germany's industrial capacity stands idle. This year, the country's gross national product is expected to drop about...
Still, the EEC Commission predicts that during 1968 expansive government policies will produce a rebound-weak at first but picking up in the second six months to give the Common Market a 4½% growth for the year. At the same time, says the commission, "imports will probably increase significantly." If so, both the U.S. and Britain stand to benefit from export sales-a welcome prospect because it would ease their balance-of-payments troubles...
...choose to be a common company," says Ewing Marion Kauffman, 51, founder, president and principal stockholder of Kansas City-based Marion Laboratories, Inc. "It is our right to be uncommon if we can." Uncommon is hardly the word for Kauffman's pharmaceutical firm, which was founded on poker winnings, grew by selling ground oyster shells, and has made wealthy people out of typists and maintenance men who bought stock for around 66? a share when the company was young. They have since seen their shares increase...
PHONY, kitch and camp are examples of a useful phenomenon: every so often a word breezes into common usage meaning many things and weaving together previously unrelated objects into a new category. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov offers a new word, poshlost (pronounced push-lost). In Russian it means vulgarity or triteness, but in an interview with Author Herbert Gold in the current Paris Review, Nabokov so expands the definition that it makes one wonder how the English language ever got along without...
Some students complain of the lack of color and cozy spots. They feel that Andrews' attempt to provide common spaces to meet new people has worked very well, but there just isn't any place in the building where one could be alone with a few close friends...