Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just how little is The Littlest Pub? The capacity of this Irish pub is close to 25 people, but the friendly atmosphere and intimate surroundings make it seem much like an upperclass common room. Crank up the Irish music in a JCR to reproduce the atmosphere: "The Commitments" soundtrack and the Cranberries dominate the sound system, although unadvertised Irish musicians have been known to cram into one corner of the bar and perform live...
...Control Freak complex is nearly as common as that of the Overprotective Parent. Eliminating free will on the part of the child, dictatorial Control Freaks decide which classes their children enroll in, which activities they are to be involved in, and who they can socialize with. Sometimes these so-called adults are controlling their children's lives to make up for a lack of control in their own, while in other cases, they don't trust students' judgements enough to allow them to handle their own decisions...
...more general understanding of the issues, your readers should know that the facts about women in science and academic careers differ considerably from the common assumptions about the salience of family obligations and the grounds for women's decisions about careers. Nearly 40 percent of the women who pursue academic careers are unmarried and do not have small children, so the various family-friendly policies, important as they are to the other 60 percent, don't apply. But, strikingly, career outcomes differ minimally among the two groups, and married women with children are the more successful. Women's academic careers...
...income generated, rather than being fixed, vacillates with market rates. These differences are so fundamental that it's a stretch even to call them bond funds. They're more like a stock. In fact, if you have money in a bond fund, what you really own is common stock in a company that invests in bonds. That stock goes up and down along with the value of the company's assets, which in this case are mostly bonds but sometimes include exotic derivative securities. Clearly, investors seeking to preserve capital and earn a fixed-income stream for a set period...
...nutty that the school district plans to expand its laptop program from Mott Hall's 30 sixth-graders to more than 200 students in the next month. Not long ago, laptop computers were a luxury even administrators couldn't afford; now the district wants to make them as common as spiral notebooks in its classrooms. Superintendent Anthony Amato predicts that laptop computers will be on most American students' desks within five years. "I'd put my reputation on it in a minute," he effuses. Since last year, Amato has fielded "calls from superintendents across the country" who want to replicate...