Word: uncommonly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chronic insomniac, just a sometimes insomniac," Joe claims, but if you had witnessed his marathon bout with sleepless nights, you might begin to wonder just where he draws the distinction. It all began with the none-too-uncommon catalyst: second semester freshman year, the last hourlies before exam period, a semester already marred by negligence and procrastination, and four really rough courses. Then to add wood to the fire we've got the snoring roommate on the upper bunk. Sure, amidst anxiety-ridden times and uncontrollable circumstances, we are all afflicted with the inability to fall asleep for awhile...
...Unable to compete with large farms, many small growers have been driven off the land. Between 1940 and 1970, the number of farms in the region was halved, to 1.1 million. Abandoned farmhouses-porches fallen in, chimneys hidden by vines, bushes protruding from windows-are a not uncommon sight...
Perhaps the problem of whether professors should or shouldn't teach from works they've written has no "right" answer. Some mathematicians use no text--they just go to a board and invent a textbook on the spot. In some uncommon cases, professors feel it is immoral to ask their own students to buy their books. "Then what happens to the textbook that becomes a classic?" Cavell asks rhetorically. "Kant and Hegel would have used their own. Of course, they didn't have any competitors...
...Consumer). In a slim 135-page critique, Me & Ralph, Sanford seems obsessively concerned about his personal problems in editing the prickly Nader's syndicated newspaper column and about Nader's deteriorating relations with the New Republic. Sanford and Nader fell out over these not uncommon editor-author frictions in 1973. Sanford thereupon completed an anti-Nader article for Esquire, but was dissuaded from publishing it by then New Republic Owner Gilbert Harrison, a Nader man. Nader has not talked to Sanford since. He is not likely to do so soon, especially given some of the less than cosmic...
...acre Rouge manufacturing complex in Dearborn, Mich.; attendance there was up 36% over last year. San Francisco's cable cars are jammed, and waits for rides can take 20 minutes. Near Los Angeles, a one-hour wait to tour Universal Studios is not uncommon, and the Sheraton-Universal Hotel is filled to capacity. Visitors to Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania face a two-hour wait on weekends for one of the 77 guides; 2 million toured the historic Civil War battleground in July-a 40% increase from last year...