Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Queen declined to shed her coat and hat and politely refused a chocolate biscuit, McCarron pronounced the monarch "easy to talk to" and "very nice." The painstakingly staged 15-minute visit, a first for the Queen, was part of the royal family's ongoing effort to exhibit a common touch. After her refreshment, Her Highness witnessed a nearby soccer "display." No word on whether she did the wave...
...informal talent scouts, identifying promising soldiers for their old units. The recruits were fit and tough, and sometimes edging dangerously close to trouble with the law. "The saying used to be," Ivan recalls, "that you went either into the Spetsnaz or into prison." They had something else in common, veterans say: though often unsophisticated, they were usually very bright. Volodya, a well-educated officer who commanded a Spetsnaz unit, remembers his men as "some of the most intelligent people I have ever known...
...tobacco companies say they're being scapegoated. "It's by now common knowledge that smoking is more risky than not smoking," Philip Morris lawyer Robert Heim told the jury. Did the smokers miss all those Surgeon General's warnings? Said Heim: "If somebody started smoking a pack a day in 1966, they would have had an opportunity to see those warnings on the packs 200,000 times...
...fellow fellows--all selected on the strength of their screenplays--have wrung wit and wisdom out of racial stereotypes, the paralysis of guilt, the gift of redemption. Five of the eight are women, two are black, one is Native American and another is Asian. They have one thing in common: a story to tell. Which, in Hollywood these days, passes for experimental filmmaking...
...Willie disputed that the new plan's motivations--in a still divided city--fail to evoke a needed common cause...