Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having found no language in the constitution, the court went on to consider the government's argument that the "common law" must provide an executive privilege against forced disclosures. Noting its reluctance to create new laws, rights or privileges, the court said the issue was a policy question best left to the legislature...
...this regard. But that is a small defect in a movie of large virtue. Preston Tucker failed to attain what we are pleased to think of as the American Dream of success: his factory produced only a few dozen cars before it closed. But there is another more common, more potent American Dream, which involves not the invention of products but the invention of self. And this movie, genial and fierce, is proof of Tucker's success in that more basic line. And proof of its sure grip on our imaginations...
...take away the sins of the world. "I am sure," says Flusser, "that there were many Jews, when Jesus was crucified, who believed this innocent victim of Roman cruelty would stop the anger of God against the people of Israel. 'They died so that we may live' is a common Jewish idea...
...while Molly Bloom has been examined, analyzed, dissected and deconstructed from the time that Ulysses faced its first obscenity charges in the early 1920s, her model--Joyce's common-law wife Nora Barnacle--has gone largely unnoticed. Inaccurately dismissed as unintelligent and certainly unintellectual by posterity, Nora and her contribution to Joyce the artist and Joyce the man have been largely ignored by many scholars...
...have to drastically alter their view of matter, and pharmacologists would have to rethink conventional drug treatment. Moreover, homeopathic medicine, a fringe practice in the U.S. that is widespread in France, would get a boost. Homeopaths believe that extremely dilute solutions of some potentially harmful drugs, vigorously shaken -- a common homeopathic technique -- can treat disease...