Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Late night trips to the bathroom just got a little harder for the residents of many first-year dorms. After a vagrant was discovered showering in the second floor bathroom of Hollis Hall North, the administration moved quickly to install key-locks in all dorms with common bathrooms (with the exception of Matthews Hall, which already boasts combination locks on its doors...
...should our outrage be dampened, rather than inflamed, by knowing that these atrocities are common? Well, you cannot focus your rage against an evil that is universal. You deepen your sadness with stories--think back to the Leopold-Loeb case in 1924, for example. Everyone in America wanted to hang those two in Chicago for murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks as a sort of Nietzschean thrill; Clarence Darrow, with a magnificent speech against the death penalty, got the idiots off with life imprisonment. Nathan Leopold was released in 1958 and lived to the age of 66, strolling upon...
...monster that Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon Snyder and I created when we discovered the simple binding assay for drug receptors 25 years ago. Prozac and other antidepressant serotonin-receptor-active compounds may also cause cardiovascular problems in some susceptible people after long-term use, which has become common practice despite the lack of safety studies...
...slashing and burning, Willes pays homage to the lofty ideals of journalism in a sprawling megalopolis. "This is a very splintered place to live, a remarkably diverse place with nothing in common. We'd like to be that thing in common, building bridges of understanding," he says. "It sounds fluffy and goofy, but we take it seriously." Aware that Wall Street is asking if he can build as well as cut, he's equally intent on raising circulation 50%, to 1.5 million, an unheard-of target in an industry struggling just to retain readers...
Interests: Save at least one line for a list in series of avocational interests such as, "Reading, playing guitar, running, and choral singing." Even a brief list rounds out your presentation and may establish an initial bond of common interest with the reader...