Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subject is Sir James Goldsmith, the international financier, art collector and company collector who presciently sold most of his stock holdings shortly before last month's market crash. Senior Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer interviewed Goldsmith at length for the three-page story. The two discovered something they had in common: Frankfurt, Ungeheuer's hometown and the seat of Goldsmith's forebears, a distinguished German banking family. Ungeheuer spent a week traveling with Sir James, watching him conduct business in Paris, New York City and Washington. The two also huddled at Goldsmith's homes in Paris and New York City. The Paris...
...hapless Ginsburg, Kennedy offers an extensive record for the Senators to study; as an appellate judge he participated in 1,400 decisions and personally wrote more than 400 opinions. At least two have made legal history. In 1980 he ruled against the so-called legislative veto, a once common practice under which Congress would grant certain authority to the Executive Branch but reserve to itself the right to disapprove particular actions exercising that authority. Kennedy declared that the practice violated the constitutional separation of powers. In a 1983 dissent, Kennedy argued that a court should admit evidence gathered by police...
...hasn't been much of a season for Yale lacrosse, goes the common wisdom...
...common wisdom is right...
...good people or rich people or successful people." Battered wives with low self-esteem who are given the impression that they bear some responsibility for their own beatings are not likely to file charges or leave their husbands. And then wife-beating will remain one of the most common unreported crimes...