Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only will the inscriptions on them differ according to the various fields of study of the recipients, but they will also differ according to the gender of the recipients. For, while undergraduate women at this University attend Harvard College classes, live in Harvard College dormitories, take their meals in common dining halls and in every other conceivable way share with their male counterparts in the Harvard College experience, when it comes time to receive our degrees, those of women will make no mention of Harvard College, as our male classmates' will. Our diplomas will instead bear the seals of Harvard...
Panamanian officials point out that the canal is so important to world commerce and to Panama's future that they have taken strong measures to keep it above politics, including a constitutional amendment that makes the canal an autonomous corporation. "I think we and the U.S. have a common desire to accomplish the transition in a seamless way so that the users don't even notice it," Perez Balladares said in an interview with TIME. "Basically, we are in good shape...
...family ties and points out that all but one of his appointees--the son of the Minister of Justice--are either members of the current Panama Canal Commission or have worked on canal-related projects. "I really tried to balance those choices," the President says. "But of course the common denominator is that they are not my enemies...
...coli, as well as salmonella, listeria and other dangerous pathogens implicated in the millions of cases of food poisoning in the U.S. that cost some 9,000 lives each year. Dubbed "cold pasteurization" by the food industry, the controversy-plagued technology uses powerful gamma rays released by the common medical radioisotope cobalt 60 or streams of high-energy electrons from an accelerator. The bug-zapping power of the process is undisputed. The ionizing radiation, millions of times stronger than ordinary X rays, kills molds, bacteria and small insects by wrecking their DNA, while leaving the exposed food virtually unchanged...
...Colbert incident was neither as dramatic nor as horrendous as the recent brutalization of Abner Louima at the hands of New York City police. Cases like that grab national headlines, but they are aberrations. More systemic and infinitely harder to root out is a more common form of corruption: too many cops in too many places who routinely flout the laws they are sworn to uphold, cops who come to view the law itself as a maze of misguided rules that hinder their ability to "get the job done...