Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wandering amid Italian sausage stands, Africanart displays and Japanese-made American flags,fair-goers noted the distinctly Cambridgediversity. Said one woman leaving the Common: "Itcould only happen here...
...know if such an era ever existed outside the minds of certain Cro-Magnon professors--some still on the Harvard faculty--and the rationalizing consciences of the proto-arbitrageurs so common on college campuses these days. However you may characterize the generation that came of age during the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the women's liberation movement, the sexual revolution and the other frightening changes of "the '60s," their '80s counterparts were not in Washington last week...
...Jesse Jackson was the Black candidate, the Central America movement was a cause for the disenchanted white middle-class, few people were interested in South Africa and the anti-nuclear movement seemed a trendy fad. Now the various victims of Reagan's policies are comming to see their common cause. If no media politicians besides Jesse Jackson recognize the common enemy and our common future, more power...
...league in existence and the first to play the game with American League ballplayers, consists mostly of New York City journalists and writers. Tony Lukas of the Palukas has won Pulitzers both for his reporting for the New York Times and for his recent book on Boston race relations, Common Ground. One of the Amaros' owners (most teams have two), Dave Rubin, is co-director of the Center for War, Peace and the News Media at New York University. There are editors and writers for TIME, Newsweek, GQ, Fairchild Publications and Random House, as well as a couple of authors...
...most common swindles involves notaries public who pass themselves off as influential officials. In Spanish-speaking countries, a notario publico is a man of influence, nearly equivalent to a lawyer. Many illegals learn only after parting with their money that a U.S. notary is usually nothing more than a witness to a signature. Notaries can lose their licenses if they are convicted of such misrepresentation. "The new law," says Texas Assistant Attorney General LaMonte Freerks, "is a growth industry in rip-offs...