Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nuclear foes are clearly spoiling for a fight. That is nowhere more true than in West Germany, where confrontations between protesters and police have long been common. Says Dieter Kersting, a leading opponent of plans to build a fuel-reprocessing facility in a forest clearing near the Bavarian town of Wackersdorf: "The Chernobyl catastrophe clearly strengthens our position." Noting that officials have consistently called the chances of a meltdown virtually nil, Kersting added, "Who can believe those assertions...
...summer of 1976, Judkins, then a 19-year-old New Hampshire boy attending Haverford College, signed on as a cook with a circus bound for broke. Cooking led to a truck-driving job, then magician, then fire-eater ("It's just basic common sense. Heat rises. Keep the heat going up. Keep your mouth wet--and your mustache trimmed"), then sideshow manager, then ringmaster. Then the show went bankrupt. Judkins' last task, in December 1977, was to return an elephant leased from D.R. Miller. Hauling a rented trailer that the elephant was systematically reducing to bits, Judkins reached Hugo penniless...
...dissent joined by William Rehnquist, Chief Justice Warren Burger complained that the majority had infringed on "a procedure which has been part of the common law for many centuries." A surprising member of the majority was Byron White, author of a 1965 court decision that last week's ruling overturned. "The time has come," said White, to take a further step to root out discrimination in jury selection...
...McNair will be interred in his hometown of Lake City, S.C.. The family of Mission Specialist Judith Resnik has not announced its plans. The final ceremony for Challenger's crew will be at Arlington, where the body parts that could not be identified will be placed in a common grave dedicated to all the astronauts...
This week the House Budget Committee will begin wrestling in earnest with its own resolution. After helping bang out a budget that reflected more common sense than political ideology, Pete Domenici proudly declared that the Senate plan "sends a signal to the House that something close to this is what we ought...