Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subject to question, her complaint illustrates how the right image for working women is still unsettled. "Almost anything you wear runs the risk of looking like you're trying to appear just like a man, or too feminine," says University of Miami law school professor Mary Coombs. Still, common sense would seem to rule out some costumes. Says dean Roger Abrams of the Nova University Center for the Study of Law in Fort Lauderdale: "I think neither a man nor a woman can be outright sexy and be an attorney." Wait until they hear that over...
Like most attack ploys, there was a grain of truth to be exploited: the prison-furlough policy used by Massachusetts went beyond the boundaries of common sense. Unlike other states and the Federal Government, which usually employ furloughs to gradually acclimate prisoners near the end of their sentences to living outside the walls, Massachusetts granted weekend leaves to convicts whom judges had condemned to remain behind bars until they died. Horton is precisely the sort of criminal that people have in mind when they say someone should lock him up and throw away...
...complaints about the voting procedures to court, she may have a hard time proving her case. Although Thompson received little more than 50 percent of all ballots cast--leaving open the possibility that nearly half of the voters intended to vote for Graham--in past elections it has been common for voters not to express a preference in local races...
...people--the common people," said Juanita L. Miranda, a campaign volunteer. "He's for the little American--not the middle, not the big. He doesn't want to see the peons beat...
...difficulties, the project has been a cliffhanger for Buckley and Alexander Hadden, a co-investor whom Buckley credits with seeing the enterprise through. "Without his strength and determination," he says, "I don't know if I would have stuck with it." For Hadden it has been a matter of common sense. "It's crazy not to use this power that's freely available and does no harm to the environment...