Word: commonness
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...distant and bureaucratic federal government. In this atmosphere, a few voluntary exercises in civic virtue would do little to change general attitudes. The time and opportunity costs that such voluntary activities often involve can be handled primarily by the well-to-do. What we should aim for is a common civic effort involving all classes, not continued reinforcement of class divisions...
...seriously doubt whether a federally-funded incentive program would inspire much of a change. Such a program would probably be handicapped by limited resources and faced with economic competition from other sectors. The use of economic incentives would attract only the less-advantaged and again not provide for the common civic effort that would undermine the psychological bases for bigotry, sexism and class divisions. Incidentally, I find it puzzling that the editors who argue that citizenship should be motivated by altruism would advocate economic incentives for its exercise...
Mack I. Davis II, assistant dean of the College for advising and counseling and a member of the committee which oversees the prefects, says the training the prefects received was just fine. "I'm not about to say that we should start having training programs to teach people common sense...
Besides comeback capability, however, about the only thing the two teams have in common is a great running back...
While they do not know one another, they have a common bond in sharing the most common name in the student directory, according to David S. Cohen '88. He says, "I enjoy looking through the phone book just to make sure that no name's competing...