Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general I try to keep my new addiction in perspective. I try to recall the common--but cheering--advice offered me early in my career by a wizened sage of the greens...
More intimate use of the alloy is made by Japan's Wacoal Corp., which last week began marketing its Memory Wire bras in the U.S. for about $30. The new product avoids a difficulty common to many regular wire bras, which can become twisted and more rigid after each washing. What next for the wonder metal? Says a manufacturer of the alloy: "A dented automobile fender that could be returned to new with a blow dryer sounds great, but it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce...
...authorities are noticing around the country: the telephone beeper or pager, long used as a stay-in-touch device by doctors, plumbers and electricians, is now the gadget of choice for the dope industry as well. "Beepers," says Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Curtis Hazell, "are the single most common tool of the drug trade...
...hunting for them. These days, with drugs moving by land, sea and air, the paging device is likely to turn up anywhere. "It's not uncommon for pagers to wash up onshore," concedes Ann Director of the Telocator Network of America, the Washington trade association that represents radio common carriers. Nor is it that unusual for beepers to be found in schools among both suspect students and those who are merely trying to be hip. Says George Vaughn, chairman of the Detroit school board's safety and security commission: "If a kid is wearing a beeper, that's supposed...
...fact is that no wide social community exists, no village of common thought, in which personal freedom may be judged, guided and made valuable. That is not true of political freedom. Throughout last July's Liberty Weekend, Americans trumpeted their personal freedoms from every stage, mainly because those freedoms have contributed to making a fruitful collective entity, a country. It may be argued that the most important purpose of political freedom is to tend toward community, since individual freedom allows one to grow toward an appreciation of others, a sense of common tragedy and the exercise of generosity...