Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alaskan students also share a common academic problem. Their home state's schools rarely offer good language programs, making it difficult for Alaskans to fulfill Harvard's language requirement...
...Democratic strategists have mistakenly dismissed the group as a single-issue--anti-abortion--constituency. Instead they should be appealing to evangelicals on the issues they have in common, such as aid to children, the elderly and the poor. Winning over the bloc is much more a question of how a candidate frames the debate, than his stance on every issue; righteous positions can be taken on many fronts, even without crossing the barrier between church and state...
Although the common image of an athletic trainer is wrapped up in endless rolls of ankle tape, the reality is quite different. The athletic trainers of 20 years ago--who rarely prescribed anything but rest and ice--have given way to highly trained professionals whose responsibilities include rehabilitating injured athletes and giving advice on physical preparation...
...capacity as Hole #12 in an all-hall tourney of 18-hole Beer Golf, played host to a circle of drunken funsters. One of these revellers, from another school no less, temporarily transformed into an outright hooligan by the sauce, relieved himself against the wall of my hallmates' common room...
...well was Kim Young Sam, 60, whose Reunification Democratic Party added only seven seats to its existing 52. There was speculation that Kim Dae Jung would try to push aside Kim Young Sam and head the two opposition parties, though so far he has merely said he will seek "common ground" with other opposition parties. Meanwhile, a third and more conservative opposition group, Kim Jong Pil's New Democratic Republican Party, won a respectable 35 seats in its first election. Political insiders speculated that President Roh might be tempted to seek an accommodation with that party, which controls just enough...