Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amount of money involved is not the major problem here," said Elizabeth Fay, executive director of the public interest group Common Cause. "The important thing is whether or not our elected officials are setting the example they should be. Cheating the system is cheating the taxpayers. It's wrong...
...federal reform is expected to have an impact on most of the 43 states (plus the District of Columbia) that levy some form of personal income tax. * The added state taxes will result from the common practice among state authorities of using federal tax rules -- including deduction guidelines -- as the basis for their own calculations, even while setting state tax rates independently of Washington. By eliminating deductions for, among other things, consumer interest payments and contributions to individual retirement accounts, federal tax reform will thus substantially increase the amount...
...Hell, every week that goes by, it's almost accepted as a common event, a near midair!" complains Captain Hank Duffy, the outspoken head of the 39,000- member Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA). Says Duffy: "Near midairs, runway incursions, delays -- every indicator in the system says that we're hanging by our fingernails...
...Cooperson's roommates, Miles F. Ehrlich '87, said that the common room had suffered extensive damage. Ehrlich said that, in addition to the couch, all of the room's furnishings, including a double bed, a rug, a chair, and a stereo, had gone up in flames. Ehrlich also said that some of the other rooms in the suite had suffered smoke damage...
...formal training of TFs in even the rudiments of teaching, let alone teaching in the Core. We are encouraged to attend an annual workshop, and periodically we receive pertinent mailings (the new Teaching Fellows Handbook was mailed at mid-semester), and the situation in this department is common to many. Most TFs tend to compensate by devoting unusual amounts of time to preparation, usually at the expense of the research for which we have come...