Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge to Install Lights on Common...
...effort to make the Harvard Square area safer for pedestrians at night, the city will begin installing lights around the Cambridge Common within two weeks, City Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 said last week...
...protection of undergraduate financial aid justify the possibility that schools collude in setting faculty labor costs together, a separate issue involving separate individuals? Can we contradict collusion charges when the most expensive schools jointly hike costs faster than inflation? Further, how can it be ethical to set a common price--the Ivy League schools with the exception of Cornell all cost between $19,000 and $19,500--when housing costs, facilities costs and research costs almost certainly vary? The potential for abuse goes far beyond financial aid-fixing...
Unfortunately, it's too much even to take the universities' ethical claim of avoiding a "bidding war" at face value. First use common sense. When setting financial aid packages together, the overlap group of schools is plainly more likely to decide on a lower award, not a higher one. The whole point of meeting is of course to save money...
...under the federal Constitution, at least ten states have seen their school- financing systems overturned under state-constitution provisions. In June the Kentucky Supreme Court struck down that state's financing methods, ordering the legislature not only to equalize spending but also to reorganize "the whole gamut of the common-school system...