Word: commonly
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...housing industry is a significant part of the U.S. economy. New housing alone accounted for $32 billion, or 3% of the gross national product last year. It is also such a diverse business that its leaders rarely have an opportunity to meet and exchange views. The one common forum for top management is the Housing Industry Presidents Conference, which has been sponsored by Time Inc. since 1954. The conference brings together heads of trade associations and corporations, mortgage bankers and Government officials, for three days of frank, off-the-record discussion...
Twice a Nobel prizewinner (chemistry 1954, peace 1962), California Biochemist Linus Pauling has claimed a breakthrough in treatment of the common cold. His nonsecret: vitamin C, which was isolated in 1928. The vitamin-also called ascorbic acid-has never received its due, Dr. Pauling says, partly because the drug companies cannot make enough money out of it and partly because doctors generally prescribe doses just large enough to prevent scurvy. In a paperback, Vitamin C and the Common Cold (W.H. Freeman & Co.; $1.95), Pauling recommends a daily 250-to-10,000 milligrams to keep colds from being caught, plus...
Zinn answered "no," and the clerk said: "Then the court orders you committed to the common jail...
...highlighted by an incident in which the prosecutor, Lt. Henry Breen, asked Donnelley whether it was not true that Donnelley had seen Breen many times before representing the Harvard Corporation and M. I. T. in cases such as the present one. Donnelley replied that he hoped Breen represented the Common-wealth of Massachusetts...
...relied heavily on one of the most powerful tools at their disposal: Vietnamese culture. By focusing public attention on things Vietnamese, they have openly challenged the tremendous American influence on their society, and at the same time are forging a spirit of unified struggle among the Vietnamese against a common enemy. This cultural renaissance has taken many forms. During the week I spent in Saigon, the Saigon Student Union organized two "cultural events": an "art exhibition" consisting largely of pictures of the My Lai massacre and of Saigon police beating down student demonstrators; and a "soiree" of very political song...