Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard and French researchers announced last week that they are joining together in a five-year project aimed at improving the detection and treatment of two common forms of cancer...
...contending that the availability of condoms around Harvard Square makes on-campus dispensers unnecessary, Lichtman is ignoring the fact that many people are reluctant to purchase condoms across the counter. Embarrassment, unfortunately is often a stronger force than common sense...
...Keats' "To Autumn," Byron's Don Juan, Burns' "Auld Lang Syne" and Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" in one room at once? But the curators have also assembled an extraordinary range of paintings, drawings and prints to show what effect the new current of natural vision, directed toward subjects both common and sublime, had on English artists -- how it was refracted and amplified in their work, and where the obsessions of artist and poet crossed...
...concern is a common one in Japan. Says Johsen Takahashi, chief economist of the Mitsubishi Research Institute: "We have a strong feeling that we have to take care of ourselves. The pension system, while greatly improved in recent years, is still not trusted. Many Japanese fear that a change in government or severe inflation would sweep away their future...
...School are two very different institutions with one thing in common. Although both were founded with noble aims in mind, both have since been sullied by wrongful actions incompatible with their initial missions. This is not to compare the murders of foreign heads of state and overthrows of regimes with the too often too cozy relationship between the K-School, Big Government and Big Donors. But it is cause for concern when the CIA and K-School link up, as it was announced last week they would under the auspices of a new program to be funded by the agency...