Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most controversial suggestions on how to limit takeovers comes up for SEC hearings next month. It involves a New York Stock Exchange proposal to remove its 60-year-old "one share, one vote" rule, which prohibits the trading of shares in companies that issue both voting and nonvoting common stock. The revision would allow corporate managers and other insiders to keep the voting stock for themselves and to raise money by selling the nonvoting shares to other investors. Critics of the proposal see it merely as a way for managements to make themselves impregnable...
...Jersey Generals' final spring, Flutie had missed playing football. But back in a clubhouse again, he realized that his greater longing had been for a team. "Without a team, it's like you're alone on an island. There's no one around to turn to, no common goal to strive for. When you're a quarterback, it's particularly empty...
...Eudora Welty, Morris has not devoted the bulk of his attention to a particular social class or geographic area. His principal characters may be anything from janitors to college professors, and his settings range from Vienna to Brooklyn to Missouri to Northern California, with numerous points in between. The common thread in Morris' stories, both early and late, is an odd, intense vision of life after nearly all passion has been spent. Well into their marriages, husbands and wives coexist in uneasy truces, wondering whether their remaining energies will run in tandem or blow each other apart...
...Washington, it is common wisdom never to underestimate Reagan, who has defused many past crises. But this one seems different: for the first time, the public is showing a tendency not to believe the President, and the Democrats, who will shortly control both houses of Congress, sense that Reagan may at last be vulnerable to a broad-ranging attack. How can he fend...
...didn't kill anyone. But what seems obscured by the financial community, and perhaps even the press, is that he is a common--or rather, uncommon--criminal who is barely even getting slapped on the wrist...