Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they discover they have a lot in common. They both love Casablanca. They both have recently ended long-term relationships. They are both miserable...
...hearing at which Giamatti could suspend him from baseball for a year (if he was found to have bet on any games at all) or for life (if he bet on his own team -- even to win). Norbert A. Nadel, a judge of Ohio's Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, opened last week by issuing a temporary restraining order barring Giamatti from holding the hearing, which had been scheduled for Monday. In what many critics denounced as a hometown ruling by a judge soon up for re- election, Nadel declared that Giamatti was so biased against Rose that...
...primary goal of the West must be to avoid such a crackdown. Thus the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have a common interest: defining the Soviet Union's proper security concerns and ensuring that they are respected. That is the notion behind Henry Kissinger's proposal that critics have dubbed Yalta II. If the Soviets felt assured that the U.S. would not exploit the changes militarily, they could be expected to allow the reforms more leeway. Bush has indicated support for this approach; in a speech in West Germany in late May, he said he wanted to "let the Soviets know...
Western experts have long had reservations about Soviet reactor design, but deficiencies may be even worse in the areas of fire prevention, systems monitoring and damage control. The most recent accident indicates that the Soviet navy may be facing another problem common to all sub fleets: long-term stress in aging vessels. The Echo IIs were built in the early and mid-'60s; last week's accident could point to insufficient maintenance...
Even if it's too early to tell how his proposals will work, Bush's restraint and reason in arriving at most decisions seem to count for a lot. It could also be that Bush's very commonness is his virtuosity -- common decency, common courtesy, common interests and common sense. Before he sat down last week to talk nukes with Australia's Prime Minister Bob Hawke, the President hacked around the scruffy Andrews Air Force Base golf course in suffocating heat. True, he had enjoyed roast saddle of veal Perigourdine at the state dinner, but by Wednesday...