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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Disaster has come in varying degrees for many of those who work, live or learn in New Haven. Multiple shootings like the four on the night of October 14 of last year are no longer uncommon. As recently as December, seven shootings occurred in two days...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistant," 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...
...uncommon spectacle in professional sports: National Football League team owners and players successfully negotiating a new labor-and-salary agreement that satisfied both sides. The accord for the first time permits unrestricted free agency for players after five seasons and contains a team salary cap for owners, staving off the kind of spending spiral that has weakened professional baseball. The deal also signifies something invaluable to sports fans: no more strike fears. If only pro baseball's bickering, greed- riddled players and owners could function this smoothly...
Bowties are less common than neckties for interview wear, but not a faux pas. According to Susan Lindstrom, a recruiter with Price Waterhouse in Boston, bow ties are "not uncommon," and can make a favorable impression if they reflect the interviewee's character...
...served her not only as a way of working out ideas but also as a dump for emotional neediness, frustration, the difficulty of achieving clarity in her work, the fear of madness, pain and death. As an "explanation" of Hesse's art, they have limited value. It's not uncommon to run across people who imagine that Hesse, a highly intelligent artist with deep wells of melancholy and self-doubt, actually committed suicide or was in some way immolated on the altars of a sexist art world. But she wasn't an art martyr, and this sort of lumpen-feminist...