Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance to talk with them, if you live in one of the three houses which don't invite undergraduates to Senior Common Room (SCR) meals...
Last week, several men hosted a social event open to all house members. The walls of their common room sported numerous Response posters which they had torn down from their rightful locations and upon which they had written comments. Appended to one rape victim's expression of anguish was the comment which says it all: "She asked for it." You don't have to be a Response rape counselor or a "radical communist lesbian" to be shocked by the realization that Harvard students think these issues are funny. Yet, these gentlemen were taken aback when house members complained...
...head of his own Chicago accounting firm: "In the past, the theory was that if you had your green eyeshade on and worked at your desk, you'd get more business. That's not true anymore. You have to aggressively go after it now." Client stealing has become more common. So has diversification of the accounting product line: only 60% of accounting- firm revenues today come from classical auditing, with much of the rest coming from such areas as tax planning (23%) and management consultant work...
...sides agreed to return to the "quiet diplomacy" that characterized the preparations for Geneva. That means an avoidance of provocative public statements that have become common in recent weeks and, instead, a reliance on communications through the Soviet embassy in Washington and the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Until a replacement for Dobrynin is named, Shultz will deal with the Soviet charge d'affaires, Oleg Sokolov, an experienced diplomat who was also a key player at Geneva. After the Shevardnadze visit in mid-May, Shultz will probably return the call in Moscow by late June. These meetings, in the words...
...analyst is now urging the contras to shed their "cia-imposed leadership." He says that it is resented by the combat troops, considered "hostile to democracy" and is damaging to the unity of the various contra factions. He believes that if the contras unite under a common political banner, with such respected democrats as Arturo Cruz and Alfonso Robelo at the top, Nicaraguans and Americans will support the rebels as a legitimate democratic resistance force...