Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brandeis Justice reported that Director of Health Services Dr. Harris Faigel dispensed so called "beta-blocker" propanolol, a common prescription drug, to 25 extemely jittery high school seniors retaking the SAT test. The group was selected for a high level of test-taking anxiety...
...drug has also been tried informally on Brandeis students, but without significant results, according to Faigel. He explained that the drug only works for students who experience extreme anxiety, not for those who simply get a common case of pre-test butterflies...
...director Michael Shin's production, set and lighting effects are minimal (and ill-handled), and Shin focuses on his actors instead of their surroundings. This is probably a wise decision given the limitations of the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Shin does wonders with costumes. He has turned three teenagers into very convincing looking ma, pa, and China Mama, using hairstyle and clothing to age the young faces...
...situation is analogous to the Gary Hart adultery "scandal." It's not the fact that he couldn't keep it in his pants that disqualified him for the presidency. The real problem, the common wisdom had it, was that he lied about his extra-marital activities...
Although Ginsburg's indiscretion may have been common among members of the Big Chill generation, his confession fatally undermined his support among the Capitol Hill conservatives who had lobbied so hard for his nomination. The disclosure was the final straw in a week of controversy that included accusations of conflict of interest over his investment in a cable-television company, charges by a congressional committee that he ordered the destruction of documents while he worked at the Justice Department, allegations that he improperly sidetracked rules to limit the use of cancer-causing asbestos, and the revelation that his wife...