Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...four hours of conference-table talk and over after-dinner cigars and coffee, der Alte hinted at diplomatic concessions sure to make Britain's mouth water. Ade nauer seemed willing to slow down the pace of the Common Market tariff changes, even ready to discuss the knotty "special problems" such as preferential Commonwealth tariffs, which the British claim make it impossible for them to join the Common Market in its present form. Nothing was settled, but technicians on both sides set to work seeking areas of compromise. "They've put a good deal of water in the Common...
Lamb Stew Years. The inter-American system that has produced the OAS was invented by Símon Bolivar, South America's George Washington. In 1826 hemisphere nations met with him in Panama to produce a treaty dealing with common defense, peaceful settlement of disputes and abolition of slave trading. There the idea rested until 1889, when U.S. Secretary of State James G. Elaine organized a trade-promoting "International Union of American Republics." In 1910 the organization got its present Spanish-colonial-style headquarters in Washington and a permanent secretariat, the Pan American Union. It then began a three...
...master's-degree term paper to her speech professor at the University of Utah. He flipped the 80 pages once-and marked the paper without missing a detail. His untrained speed: 6,000 w.p.m. Teacher Wood found 50 other such prodigies, including housewives and a sheepherder. All had common characteristics: they read whole paragraphs at a time, remembered everything. Concluded Teacher Wood: "Speed is not most important, but only through speed do you get good comprehension...
...hold the stock advised the owners, in a confidential memo, to accept the merger offer of the C. & O. Merger of the C. & O. and the B. & O., said the memo, would "present many real advantages." The banks pointed to the C. & O.'s strong earnings and high common stock dividends ($4 a year since 1957), noted that the Central's "earnings have fluctuated widely" and "the stock must be considered as speculative...
...Ballad of Peckham Rye, by Muriel Spark. A brief encounter between a London Mephistopheles and the local mediocrities produces a hilarious novel, and some reflections about how even the common place can be touched with mystery...