Word: commons
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Bloom makes the compelling point that the teaching of the classic texts holds a unique potential to bring students and professors closer. Classic works are the common intellectual property of all, teacher and student alike. Specialized academic study, in contrast, inevitably leaves students at an enormous and often stifling intellectual disadvantage to their professors. Anything which brings History department faculty closer to the student body is something to be welcomed...
HCHP ultimately performed a Spirometer test on Ramos to determine whether she had pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, which is common among AIDS victims, but test results were incomplete because the Spirometer machine "ran out of paper and the test was not completed," according to the complaint...
...tolerate or prevent. Admitting this, however, is difficult. Easier to dismiss it all as the work of crazy states. Reagan was certainly right that these countries are "united by their fanatical hatred of the United States." But that in itself is not proof of derangement. Hatred is a common, often useful, phenomenon in international relations. And fanaticism is a measure of passion, not irrationality...
...classically grand facades of their houses. "One might look like Mount Vernon, one like the White House and one like Monticello," says Randolph Williams, developer of more than 20 luxury-home communities in the Washington suburbs. Inside, the new mansions often combine traditional elegance and modern glitz. Among the common features are mahogany trim, granite counter tops, marble floors, custom-made Palladian windows and spectacularly high ceilings...
...Purveyors of high-tech consumer electronics are also fond of the megahome trend: it often allows them to sell twice as many goodies to one homeowner. Dual "entertainment centers," including one for the children, are increasingly common in today's luxury homes. Both centers may be outfitted with records and audio-and videotapes, along with movie and big-screen-TV equipment. At the Blackhawk luxury-house complex in Danville, Calif., one homeowner installed a separate entertainment center with a TV and stereo in the guest suite of his 10,000-sq.-ft. Normandy-style chateau, for those times when...