Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women of today do need to share common experiences of working in what has long been a male-dominated career world. But women no longer need to be forced into feelings of inferiority by the institutions that are meant to equalize their chances once they are spit out into that world. There should be no more xeroxed reunion books, no more acceptances to Radcliffe, no more Radcliffe required on women's diplomas...
Salovaara, who last year supervised the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) Common Casting week--the process through which directors cast simultaneously all the plays on the HRDC semester production schedule--estimates that fewer than 10 percent of the actors who audition through Common Casting are Black...
...critical. Asked to give their opinion of Raisa Gorbachev, some Soviets roll their eyes and choose their words carefully. "I'm with her because I think women should take a more active role in our society," says a young woman named Anna in Moscow. "But she must use more common sense. She goes to a factory wearing furs. That's bad taste. She's showing off, and it doesn't help her husband's public image...
...plunged after reports circulated in 1986 that the car sometimes surged forward even though the accelerator was not depressed. The sudden accelerations allegedly caused more than 1,300 accidents, which resulted in five deaths and 441 injuries. While attention has focused on Audi, the problem may be much more common than originally thought, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating similar complaints about other manufacturers' models...
...tobacco industry, as expected, blasted the Surgeon General's report. "The claims that smokers are 'addicts' defy common sense and contradict the fact that people quit smoking every day," said Brennan Moran, a spokeswoman for the Tobacco Institute. "The Surgeon General has mistaken the enemy," declared Democratic Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina. "In comparing tobacco -- a legitimate and legal substance -- to insidious narcotics such as heroin and cocaine, he has directed 'friendly fire' at American farmers and businessmen...