Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After remaining in the grave for a dozen years, the sport experienced a renaissance in 1871. Students who had learned to play football in the Boston prep schools organized a game on Cambridge Common without Administration protests...
...intellectual reaches of the Kennedy School of Government, there's a politician News week once called "a frumpy reformer with a common touch...
...accessible, but there were very few places with large enough space," Harris said. "The Union has a two hour limit on reserving room space, and they weren't real flexible about giving us more time." Instead the actors had to rehearse in the not-entirely accessible Quincy House Junior Common Room...
Hoffman said that 25 percent of all cancer victims experience job discrimination because of their medical history. Widespread perceptions that cancer is contagious, automatically terminal or necessarily debilitating were the most common sources of this discrimination, she said...
While responsibilities and demands have multiplied, teachers have seen little increase in the financial or moral support they need to do the job. Overcrowded classes, inadequate or outdated equipment and long hours are common. At the same time, in a panicked effort to improve their schools, many states and localities have added new and often burdensome course requirements, typically without input from teachers. "Traditionally, teachers have been treated like very tall children," observes Mary Futrell, president of the National Education Association (NEA), which represents 1.6 million schoolteachers. "We are not perfect," concedes Baltimore elementary school teacher Kathlynn Jacobs. "But people...