Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard officials said that research at the University is focused on the work of individual professors as opposed to the large federally-funded facilities that are common at MIT. Because Harvard does not have such facilities, it does not seek the same degree of large-scale Pentagon funding, officials said...
...common element of the old and new systems that creates this problem is the "maximization of first choice" principle. Once lottery numbers are assigned, the Freshman Dean's Office runs through the list of first choices granting each rooming group its first choice contingent on its availability. Then, it goes through the same process with the second and third choice list. In this system, there is an incentive to outguess the competition. A person could increase his chances of success by putting down a less desirable house. This strategic behavior defeats the purpose of house selection. Freshmen are supposed...
...Salyut 7 but only slightly wider. Since the new space station is not intended to house bulky experimental gear, it has much more living space inside. Crew members have separate "cabins," or cubicles, each equipped with a folding chair, a desk, a mirror and a sleeping bag. The common area of the space station's living unit features a dining table, a buffet built into a nearby bulkhead, and exercise equipment for the crew. The station is fitted with a large number of portholes, providing views from all four sides of Mir. One oversize porthole has been installed...
Chirac still summers at his family's farm in Correze, a picturesque but poor district in south-central France. It was there that he developed the easygoing rapport with the common people that allowed him to run for and win his first elected position, a district assembly seat, in 1967. Even today, the tall, slim Chirac is famous in the district for his prodigious memory for the names and family histories of his constituents--and for his gargantuan appetite...
...A.M.A. decision was hailed by many advocacy groups last week as an important step in preserving the right to die with dignity. After "a period when technology was used indiscriminately, this returns us to common-sense medicine," declared A.J. Levinson, executive director of Concern for Dying in New York City. But there were bitter objections as well. "Deciding to begin selective starvation is a decision no civilization should make," said Philosophy Professor Patrick Derr of Clark University in Worcester, Mass. And dehydration, critics noted, can be a gruesome way to die (though just how much a comatose patient feels...