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commons
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The Free Table began as a kind of informal commons, a collision point of surplus and need.
I’d like the city to think big on behalf of the greater good — the commons, as it used to be called — instead of the individual.
Speaking in the commons on Tuesday, Defence Secretary John Healey said the person involved in the leak was "no longer doing the same job", and offered a "sincere apology" on behalf of the government.
Hardin was particularly concerned with population growth and resource depletion, arguing that “freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.”
This means defending the university not as a corporate entity or site of theocratic indoctrination but as a democratic commons.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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