Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Flowers and Pfeiffer-Common Grounds...
Other houses, including Adams, Dunster, Lowell, Mather and Quincy, allow students to smoke in their rooms or suites, but not in the Houses' common areas. Students may also smoke outside these houses...
...countries and cultures, the nuclear family survives a university education and often well beyond one, whether under one physical roof or simply in the same city, in America, the dynamics of the parent-child relationship changes forever once high school is over. In France, for example, it is very common for students to attend university in their home city and live with their parents, or to spend another year at home preparing their Baccalaureate. Similarly in Israel, 18-year-olds who enter the army often split their time between the base and home, and then live with their parents during...
...disjunction is not so severe--who let a bit of their natural appeal shine through. This can come in handy in tight spots. Ronald Reagan's undoubted insouciance helped him escape blame for the unconventional accounting practices of Oliver North. John F. Kennedy's sense of ironic detachment--common to rich kids since the time of Prince Hal--allowed him to slip out from under the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs. And Franklin Roosevelt's inborn aristocratic bearing led his public to assume during the Depression that he knew what he was doing, even when he didn't, which...
...government will keep control of a few strategic industries like steel and armaments. But it will otherwise relinquish the common ownership of production that has underpinned the Communist Party's claim that China is still a socialist nation. However much elders of the party might flinch at the crumbling of their faith, Jiang is sure to win endorsement from the 15th Party Congress, meeting for seven days in the capital to set the country's agenda for the next five years. The inefficient and money-losing businesses have become such a burden that the leadership can no longer...