Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school is not without its detractors. The most common criticism is that it teaches, in the words of Washington Monthly Editor Charles Peters, "the art of public administration, how to get elected instead of the issues that government is trying to accomplish...
...treatments. "Many countries simply do not have the resources [to pay for expensive new treatments,]" said the symposium's moderator Richard A. Cash, a fellow at the Harvard Institute for International Development. "Only 20 to 25 percent of the at-risk population are currently immunized [against diseases common in developing countries...
However, not all the news is bad. "Sometimes high tech science brought to bear on common problems does produce a low-cost simple effective treatment," Cash said, citing a treatment for diarrhea--a major child-killer--which uses water, sugar and isotonic salt. This treatment has proved particularly effective because all the ingredients are inexpensive and mothers can administer the medicine to their children...
Sollors concurred, saying that compared to 20 years ago, there is now "no common framework of assumptions" that would allow the wide variety of new literature to converge with works traditionally considered classics...
...There is a world out there that the political reporter does not see. What the press does very badly these days is to cover the poor and vulnerable," the author of Common Ground said...