Word: uncommonly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that management should do everything possible to prevent illness in workers, not just take care of them after they become sick. He put some of his ideas into practice as medical director of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey from 1946 until 1955. Said he: "It is not uncommon to find an executive who worries more about tire replacement on his fleet of trucks than the health of his employees...
...Midwest is showing its usual hospitality, as much for pecuniary reasons as politeness: a pot of money comes to town when a big-budget movie crew arrives. It is not uncommon for the movie company and crew to spend more than $1 million on lodging, food, props, local extras and other labor. That sum generates nearly four times as much spending power as it percolates through the local economy-and the hosts incur few offsetting expenses. Says Ray Gosnell, vice president for production management at 20th Century-Fox: "There is no need to build roads or schools...
...feeling, apparently, is not uncommon. Some thrive on the atmosphere. But for many, you can tell it's going to be a long, hard year...
...calling "post-Watergate morality." Mee's acquaintance Richard, who "looks like a million dollars before taxes," is a successful and influential man--a status the reader inevitably must link to the fact that he "moves in the worlds of politics and finance, of embezzlement, larceny and war, with uncommon ease." There are no Horatio Alger stories in this decade...
Amidst all the hot, heavy air billowing forth from the movie capital this summer-a vain effort to blow some life into the uncommon number of overweight turkeys that are dying for want of public sympathy-One on One comes on like a sudden breeze off a lake...