Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There seem to be many reasons why students choose to remain on-campus for work-study, the most common of which are the convenience of a job within the school and flexible hours. Proximity of work is a major factor to a student who is trying to balance a schedule of academics and activities as well...
...throughout the season. At the GBCs, he took second in the mile run, and helped the two-mile relay to first place. At Dartmouth, he finished second in the 1000 meters to the Big Green's John McCright (last year's Heps winner). But he was sick with a common cold this weekend and had to drop out of the 3000, his only race...
...That common touch has served Babangida well since last Aug. 27, when he came to power in a military coup. Babangida deposed the country's former military leader, Major General Mohammed Buhari, who himself had overthrown the government of President Shehu Shagari in a 1983 New Year's Eve coup. Buhari had alienated the country of some 95 million people with his repressive tactics, which included jailing political enemies and using military tribunals instead of civil courts to dispense justice. Babangida's bloodless, well- planned takeover was the fifth in Nigeria since it gained independence from Britain...
...Communications and the Gallup organization. The three conclusions: surprisingly, although the evangelists raise their funds to reach the "lost," they mostly reinforce people already committed to evangelical religion. Contrary to understandable fears, Gospel TV does not undercut attendance and contributions at local churches. The competing church factions face a common, all-powerful enemy: secularized general...
...black friend who may or may not have been betrayed by the woman's husband, Glover makes the suffering less classically tragic but more universal. On Broadway, James Earl Jones envisioned the character as a great soul stifled into ordinariness. Glover instead evokes a man already ordinary, a common laborer whose simple yearnings are still too much for apartheid to permit...