Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worked for Democrats and Republicans, Gergen represents the old notion that duty to country is not partisan," he wrote. "Also, he is a Harvard Law School grad, which reminds us that we come from a tradition of providing this country with the `best and the brightest' to advance the common good...
With no single problem common to all the failures, many believe the place to look for answers is less in the guts of the missiles than in the offices of the companies launching them. A wave of defense-industry mergers has resulted in handoffs of businesses ranging from cruise missiles to space stations. Another problem may be brain drain. As the wizened engineers who first got the country into space have retired--or been downsized--they've often been replaced by younger, lower-cost ones. "Lockheed-Martin has been stitched together like Frankenstein's monster," says John Pike, an analyst...
Until now. Snowdon's latest discovery, which he will present at the National Institutes of Health this week but which he first revealed at congregation headquarters in Rome last fall, shows a strong relationship between the severe brain atrophy of Alzheimer's disease and low levels of the common B vitamin known as folic acid, or folate. Furthermore, nuns with the highest levels of folate suffered the lowest levels of cognitive decline. Says Charles Halsted, professor of internal medicine at the University of California at Davis: "It's pretty exciting stuff...
Because Latin pop draws from different cultures, it also has the power to bring people together. "Latino people have a golden key in their hands, a common treasure," says Colombian-born pop-rocker Shakira, 22, who is working with Gloria Estefan to adapt her acclaimed 1998 Spanish-language CD Donde Estan los Ladrones? into English. "That treasure is fusion. The fusion of rhythms, the fusion of ideas. We Latinos are a race of fusion, and that is the music we make. And so at the dawn of a new millennium, when everything is said and done, what could possibly happen...
...resorting to labels. This was an indefensible, brutal crime that will leave an indelible shadow over the town. But to assert a link between nonconformity and murderous tendencies is extremely irresponsible. Are we telling children they must all be alike? What all the school shooters seem to have in common is rage, much of which stems from their reputations as misfits. Social outcasts have always existed. But while kids have easy access to assault weapons, we can be sure to see more shootings. JENNIFER LYNN HUNTER New York City...