Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans. Since the Dole disaster, the mantra around Washington has been simple: Don't mess with the teachers. Last year G.O.P. consultant Frank Luntz declared that Dole's attack was the least popular sentence of the entire 1996 campaign and instructed Republican candidates to "find common ground with public school teachers." As fed up as many Americans are with the sorry state of the country's public schools, they have generally regarded teachers as the good guys: the ones who stay late, who buy textbooks out of their meager salaries. So while Republicans still detest the two formidable teachers' unions...
...Beast develops because they both feel isolated and rejected in their respective homes. This is a particularly refreshing change, since the "beauty" in the story is usually depicted as coming down from her pedestal to love the "beast" despite his ugliness, rather than because they have something in common. Despite the other achingly unoriginal aspects of B and B: The Musical, praise must be offered for these two plot adjustments...
Additionally, Harvard researchers will work with 10 colleges and universities to create a common system for reporting data on tenure...
...mail message from work, "The big thing for me now is trying to figure out what to do Next." In all of these things, from the spring-free mattresses to the vague longings (sometimes logical, sometimes not) for Ph.D.'s, there is a single common element, the same element that binds together college, fellowships, internships, nine-month jaunts to measure the biweekly rainfall in Azerbaijan and just about any other project that gets pushed onto unsuspecting young people like ourselves. That element is impermanence...
...marching, is there any room for compromise? "If I knew that, I'd be the Northern Ireland Secretary," says Hillenbrand. "It's a conflict of two rights: The right to march and the right to have peace and quiet." The key to any agreement may turn out to be common courtesy. "Perhaps the Orange will march, but play down the fife-and-drum aspect, or march without banners," he says. But Hillenbrand warns that "this is the make-or-break weekend." Sunday is the anniversary of the victory of the Protestant King William of Orange over the Catholic King James...