Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the ongoing disputes over self-identification of minority groups--whether Black or African-American, American Indian or Native American, Asian or Asian-American, Mexican-American or Chicano--runs a common thread of the problem of cultural or ethnic identity...
...will frustrate high-speed car dashes across the border, which now average 400 a month, and * also help correct drainage problems in the area. A report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform supported the idea of the ditch. "Locking uninvited gate-crashers out," it said, "is just good common sense. Everyone has the right to lock his own back door." Associate Attorney General Francis Keating has come up with a nickname for the big hole: "Our buried Berlin Wall...
...that his tongue was firmly in cheek when he implied in his articles that he had pursued a secret agenda. The point of the article, he says, was to debunk radical misconceptions about the daily press. "Rigid- minded right-wingers and rigid-minded left-wingers have a lot in common," he adds. "I wanted to knock down the conspiracy theories by pointing out that individual reporters can get across a lot of uncomfortable truths to the public...
...common element in these cases and in shootings at a high school in Washington and a car dealership in Norfolk, Va., was more than the threat to innocent bystanders. All involved the use of semiautomatic weapons. These fast-firing, powerful guns, capable of sending a bullet through a concrete wall, were once rare outside the military. But when the U.S. normalized relations with China, imports of Chinese weapons as well as other goods became legal. Purchases of the AK-47 copy soared from a mere 4,000 a year as recently as 1985-86 to more than 40,000 last...
Most important of all, affection for guns runs deep in the American psyche, as evidenced by the common estimate that 50 million to 60 million U.S. households, about half the total, own at least one gun. And many of those households are convinced that gun ownership is an inalienable right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which reads, "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Actually, the wording is ambiguous; legal scholars have been quarreling for decades over...