Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Puffing his cheeks, waving his arms, hopping around like Jackie Gleason in a one-legged jig, the burly Dutton seems a rustic buffoon. But when conversation turns to conflict, his jaw tightens and the clowning stops. In Boy Willie, Dutton and Wilson achieve that rarity in literature, a truly common, ordinary man of heroic force...
...have been instructed to beat rioters; drop gravel on them from helicopters; fire tear gas, rubber bullets, plastic bullets. None of it has ended the uprising. And even some Likud members doubt the new measures will do better. "I don't think there is a lot of logic or common sense in shooting a boy when he's already finished throwing his stone and is running away," said Minister Without Portfolio Ehud Olmert...
...Michael Dukakis, the four men gathered for a breakfast summit. One issue defied resolution: the nature of the "partnership" that Jackson was demanding. Finally Brown explained it as a language gap. Dukakis and Brountas interpreted partnership as if they were discussing a law firm. For Jackson, the term implied common goals and respect. Brown, a partner in one of Washington's most powerful law firms who began his career as an organizer with the National Urban League, helped break the impasse...
...public understandably became terrified and overreacted. Children with AIDS from Queens to Kokomo were barred from attending school. Police officers donned rubber gloves when apprehending drug abusers thought to be infected with the AIDS virus. Churchgoers declined the Communion wine they had once quaffed from their common cups. Everything from Florida's mosquitoes to food touched by gay waiters was suspected of carrying the virus...
...eight years into the epidemic, it is increasingly clear that much of the panic and scaremongering was not justified. AIDS is not the black death, and never will be. Unlike the plague or the common cold, AIDS is not easily spread. The virus is transmitted only through blood and sexual intercourse. No one has been found to get the virus from saliva, tears or toilet seats. As a result of education about AIDS and changes in sex habits, the rate of new infections has sharply dropped in some gay communities. And while the virus can sometimes be transmitted in heterosexual...