Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the future of the computer industry hanging in the balance, the launches of both Windows 98--and parallel antitrust suits by the Federal Government and some 20 states--were delayed until at least Monday to give the lawyers time to either find their way to common legal ground or determine that no such territory exists. By Saturday afternoon, though, it was clear that--probably by early Monday--Reno's press conference would almost surely be taking place after...
...only true believers will catch it--it's 10 minutes and 13 seconds after the last track. As any aficionado knows, Ten Thirteen is the name of Carter's production company; on the TV show, it's also the time frequently shown on clocks, 555-1013 is a common phone number, and October 13 is often the date. (It's Carter's birthday.) In Carter's piece, the text of which is top secret, he explains how the X-Files came to being and the conspiracy around them. The truth is out there. You just have to wait around...
...will to power is a notion utterly alien to the gentlemen and ladies of the Clinton Administration. What a retrograde, common idea. In the world of geoeconomics and globalization, of international community and cooperation, of trade and togetherness, how primitive--how zero-sum--these dreams of power...
Finnegan--rarely judging or mongering a thesis--strings the adolescents' stories along the common threads he found, the underthemes and structural weaknesses of America now: the destruction of families and absence of parents, the astonishingly pervasive presence of drugs and gun violence, a sort of postmodern lostness and indiscipline. The self-absorbed fecklessness of the adults--the abdicated parents in most of these dramas, often useless druggies and alcoholics themselves--makes the reader despise them in a way he never quite hated Pap Finn...
...homeless man was arrested for drinking a can of beer and smoking marijuana within 25 yards of a tot lot on the Cambridge Common...