Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...global economic ties bring the world closer together, the international role of English will be increasingly more significant. With so many of our trading partners speaking English as a second language, standard English may soon be more common in foreign business capitals than in the United States. Americans have the luxury of speaking the universal language from birth, but we are rapidly sacrificing our birthright on the altar of slang...
...plenty are available, as boatmakers are buffeted by one of the worst sailboat gluts in memory. No accurate estimate of the number of vessels for sale is available, but price cuts of 25% to 30%, particularly for secondhand sailboats in the $100,000-and-under range, have suddenly become common. Says Bill Stewart, owner of a boat brokerage in Key Biscayne, Fla.: "The bottom has just fallen out of sales...
...would happen. I was shocked." So were some mainstream economists who have paid little attention to Buchanan's work. One M.I.T. professor last week called public-choice theory "unsophisticated." Buchanan admits that his ideas are "not standard" but points out that many of his theories are "simple applications of common sense that the academics all forget about...
...movie Heaven Can Wait, Warren Beatty played an angelic corporate kingpin who proposes that his firm, Exo-Grey, shut down a profitable refinery because it might pollute the local environment. This was not just common sense, the Beatty character told his astonished board of directors, but good business as well, for the firm would profit from a dazzling image of social responsibility. While not all real-life businessmen would agree with that kind of thinking, it has spawned success for a small but rapidly growing group of socially conscious investment funds. About half a dozen of these mutual funds...
...that normally blocks retinoblastoma, a rare and often hereditary eye cancer that develops in children. The find should lead to an accurate test for genetic susceptibility to the disease and perhaps improved treatment. It has also raised hopes that other genes will soon be found that inhibit the more common cancers of the lung, breast and colon...