Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Secretary of State George P. Shultz last week affirmed the "common objective which unites us," the Reagan Administration's persistent attempts to salvage business interests in that nation and to protect the regime in Pretoria from sanctions has belied any meaningful opposition to apartheid. The veto override finally makes clear that the United States is on the right side of the struggle in South Africa...
Many Americans mistakenly believe that the Arm & Hammer line of baking soda, detergents and deodorizers is owned by Industrialist Armand Hammer, 88. Irked by the common confusion, the high-profile chairman of Occidental Petroleum reportedly tried a few years ago to buy the label from its owner, Church & Dwight of Princeton, N.J. But now Hammer is at least a minority Arm & Hammer proprietor, after Occidental gained a slice of ownership in Church & Dwight by a new joint venture. Under the scheme, Church & Dwight received a 50% share in a potassium-carbonate plant owned by Occidental in Muscle Shoals...
...GAMBLE worked? To some degree it has been successful in rallying veterans to the fasters' cause. Veterans' groups around the country have responded to the fast with vigils, fasts and fund-raisers, including a veterans' vigil on the Boston Common that culminated with a rally last week...
Harvard (1-1) and William & Mary (3-0) have one notable thing in common--each is one of the two oldest universities in the nation (you can figure out which is which for yourself...
...wouldn't have that much of a problem with this if these poor individuals would research their vocabularies a little more carefully. Cursing effectively and economically requires a lot of skill and subtlety, more than these people can muster. The most common mistake is thinking that one word is just as good as another, or that bigger is better. This leads to such improbable insults as "Shit off!" or "Hell you, assbutt...