Word: commonized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WILD (AM-1090), a small sunrise-to-sunset station, was able to fill this role in the '60s, as the late J. Anthony Lukas '55, a former Crimson executive, chronicles in his classic book on Boston, Common Ground. In particular, Lukas notes that in the wake of Dr. Martin Luther King's death, WILD suspended its usual rhythm-and-blues format and devoted its hours to news and commentary on the assassination. While numerous black callers pelted the radio station with calls for an end to integration, Lukas' attention is drawn to a white woman from Lexington who called...
...last Ivy Council conference (held for delegates from all Ivy League undergraduate student governments), the relationship between student governments and undergraduates was discussed. The common problems were that the student governments lacked respect from students, voter turnout was low (although Harvard has the highest turnout in presidential elections in the Ivy League), and few people believed that their governments had any effectiveness in determining university policies...
...Immigration and Naturalization Service says it will hire some 300 workers to process applications, and institute a hotline that would answer common questions about becoming a citizen. "It will make a big difference," says TIME national correspondent Margot Hornblower. California, which has the longest waiting list with some 400,000 names on it, will get the most help, with 56 new INS jobs created. "Many people have lived here for decades," says Hornblower. "And they were content to live here without being naturalized until they felt threatened by laws such as Proposition 187, which affected their health care." She points...
...Harvard, January is high season for everyone's favorite pastime, bitching and moaning. In the dining halls, on the streets, and in our common rooms, whining, complaining and lamenting proceed at a full gallop. Not only do we suffer under the burden of exams and term papers, but these winter months seem prime time for the onset of existential malaise. One friend suggested to me that The Crimson run a headline announcing, "Hell Freezes Over," in the aftermath of last week's ice storm, which left dismal Cambridge ensconced in slippery crystal...
...survivors are left with severely damaged hearts. That has contributed to an increase in cases of congestive heart failure, an often debilitating condition in which the muscle is too weak to pump enough blood to the rest of the body and eventually exhausts itself. This ailment is growing more common not only because of doctors' success in saving heart-attack patients but also because of other factors, including an aging population. What it all adds up to is that 4.8 million Americans are living diminished lives with weakening hearts. The number of deaths from congestive heart failure has doubled, from...