Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uncommon in big institutions near theend of a successful campaign for otherinstitutions to try and get important people fromthat campaign, Mason said...
Drinking was easier. Asked what and where she drank, Baiul says everything and everywhere. Vodka and cranberry was her favorite. Well, she is told, it's certainly not uncommon for a teenager, any teenager, to go for a good time...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
...kids from receiving files attached to E-mails, since some spammers offer a taste of their products by enclosing pornographic pictures. (The controls can also be set to keep kids away from certain Websites; to keep them out of AOL's private chat rooms, where sexual talk is not uncommon; and to prevent the sending and receiving of "instant messages," a kind of impromptu E-mail that members use to approach each other directly...
Christofferson also said that the eight-hour length is not unusual for IOP elections. "It's not uncommon, they always take a long time," he said...