Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...write to say that I was outraged, though hardly surprised, when President Bok decided to challenge the results of the union representation election and to surround his challenge with high-sounding rhetoric about fairness. Maintaining checklists of voters and escorting prospective supporters to the polls are common practices in every civic election in which I've ever participated. Why is it that what's fair in Cambridge is not fair at Harvard...
Crimson football success was matched by Crimson soccer success and Crimson swimming success and Crimson lacrosse success. Ivy League titles were as common in Cambridge as street-corner guitar players...
Much of the controversy surrounding the Porto trial hinged upon whether sexual asphyxia would have been part of a teenage girl's erotic habits. Porto Attorney Barry Slotnick, who defended Subway Gunman Bernhard Goetz, put an expert on the stand who testified that the practice was far more common than people realize, though deaths occur mostly among males engaged in solitary...
...sturm und drang of corporate politicking. Couldn't the conflict between yesterday people and today people, for example, be explained less ominously as the normal tendency of new management to favor its own people over the previous regime's? Aren't clashes like the one between Rather and Joyce common to any large organization employing strong-willed creative people? And if these people were not on TV, would anybody -- anybody outside of CBS, that is -- really care...
...last March, are lying about the number of intermediate-range nuclear missiles aimed at Western Europe. To back up his claim, Helms distributed a chart showing missile estimates from the State Department, the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency. The figures all conflicted, but they had one thing in common: they were highly classified. "They were code-word, code-level items," declared Democratic Senator Brock Adams of Washington, meaning that the documents were restricted even beyond top secret. Yet as committee staffers fanned out to retrieve the missile chart from reporters, Helms insisted that the information was either unclassified...