Word: communally
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...There are few symbols and ties of the communal life of this Faculty. There are very few things that tie together the special and unique community which we serve with pleasure and delight--the memorial minute is one and this is another," Gomes said...
...favorite lines of speculation on the have/have-not mystery comes from Harvard historian and economist David Landes, who, after much subtle analysis (of the low rate of Argentine savings, for example, or the intense communal focus of the Japanese) returns unexpectedly to a conclusion of such radiant common sense one wants to put him in for the Nobel Prize. His conclusion: Optimism pays...
...tested. Tannahill's reasoning is eloquent in its simplicity: "Too many of our rights have been taken away. You just have to put your foot down somewhere." For acting on this simple statement of faith in the Bill of Rights the Tannahill family has become the target of communal outrage, including physical threats, and Tannahill has since lost his job (although his employer claims it was not related to his position on drug testing...
...Marie watch as soldiers separate family members and then shoot a boy that attempts to rejoin his father. Events take a turn for the worse when a KGB officer accuses Marie of being a spy, destroys her passport, and sends her, Alexei, and their son to live in a communal apartment in Kiev...
...shortly after birth, the other of diphtheria during World War II. Although Vladimir Sr. was party secretary at the train-car factory where he worked, Volodya's mother had him secretly baptized in the Russian Orthodox faith. He grew up in one of the Soviet Union's cramped communal apartments, with no hot water, a frigid common toilet, plenty of kitchen quarrels and the occasional...