Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mess lies the so-called Iron Triangle, the web of cozy relationships among Pentagon officials, defense consultants and military contractors. The scandal has shed light not only on a few suspected of corruption but on an entire system that seems tailor-made for cheating. It has become common practice for top military men to retire and head straight for consulting companies -- sometimes known as Beltway bandits or rent-a-general firms -- where they sell their expertise and contacts to defense contractors...
...Join a Democratic Party policy forum. Georgetown University Professor Madeleine Albright, who has long been advising Dukakis on foreign policy, has seen her international-affairs advisory group more than double in size. Fred Wertheimer, director of Common Cause, spins out the pre-election ploys in a bureaucrat's rendition of rap: "You panel, you travel, you visit, you appear. Most of all, you be there...
Until recently that sentiment was common among K-School students who wanted to work in state or local governments, according to several professors and former students. Since its inception more than 50 years ago, the Kennedy School has consistently emphasized national and international issues...
...There really is a common thread among the problems that we face in urban areas," Bogg says. "I'm elated to find the funds are there for this kind of research...
...other more directly physical. But from an ethical point of view, there is little distinction, so long as society lawfully sanctions both treatment for drug abusers and manufacturing processes that create poisonous wastes. The problem remains: fewer and fewer communities acknowledge that they have any responsibility to share such common, unpleasant burdens. "The ultimate issue of community is, What do we owe other people?" says Dan Lewis, a Northwestern University urbanologist. "In our society, where individualism plays such an important role, we don't have a public ethic about what we owe others...