Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard didn't make the common mistake of acting complacent and losing to a less talented opponent. The Crimson claimed its seventh consecutive Haines Cup by cruising past the Midshipmen...
Harvard defeated Yale earlier in the year in the process of winning the San Diego Crew Classic, and based on the margin of victory against common opponents, the Crimson is running about five seconds ahead of Princeton...
...professional group, refuse procedures that seem unneeded and insist on a retest when in doubt. But few people, when ill, are up to bucking their physicians or shopping around for lab tests. Insurance companies have more power. Last year Blue Cross & Blue Shield created new guidelines for common diagnostic tests, which suggested that the plan might eventually refuse to pay for unneeded ones. The ultimate goal: to prevent useless tests from being ordered at all. It is a small, first step in the right direction...
...leader in the war against drugs, providing a rehearsal for the opening skirmish in the general election campaign. In Washington, meanwhile, the Senate was getting into the act with a measure authorizing increased spending in the drug war and cracking down on Mexico with a political fervor that belied common sense...
...effort to convey complex ideas about literature, Calvino's most effective tools are mythology and visual imagery--what he calls icastic imagery, an archaic word in English, though common in Italian, from the Greek eikastikos, meaning "figurative...