Crowd-funding, like crowd-sourcing, is the art of drawing a large group of people together to contribute to a common goal, in this case to raise money for a work of fiction or non-fiction.
Such a break up would entail Greece and Spain living the euro common currency in a worst case scenario.
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Chris Leavy of BlackRock makes a compelling case for common stocks even after the considerable run-up since March 9, 2009.
In the common case of a husband who is older and the higher earner, having him start Social Security at age 70 produces the biggest monthly check.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the common pharmaceutical industry practice of paying generic drug manufacturers to drop their patent challenges, which critics say hurts consumers by keeping prices high.
The case touches on a common challenge to police: proving intent to commit a crime without infringing on free speech rights.
In any case, a new common system is years away.
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And in virtually every case, they share a common trait: They are pitchers.
But this case is far from a common story.
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Crucially, participants are set to sign a protocol obliging businesses to inform the public of their toxic emissions, and will decide on a common environmental strategy and compensations practice in the case of accidents.
Many companies look at widening a campaign beyond the pulling power of the celebrity but so far playing out, in the planning stages of a campaign, "what if" a worst-case scenario happens is not common practice.
Otari's run-in with hackers may be an extreme case, but its experience underscores a common plight of business: total ignorance of telecom costs.
In the immediate case, A has fallen victim to a common example of poor planning.
As strange as the case is, experts said it touches on a common challenge in law enforcement: deciphering intent without running afoul of the First Amendment right to free speech.
The vogue for appointing co-chief executives, a common feature of today's friendly deals, looks like a case of avoiding hard decisions.
Mr Dow is unable to save Quaker, largely because the case was badly mishandled by his initial lawyer, a common predicament for death-row inmates.
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In the case of passports, they will merely be designed to a vague common standard.
This is the rationale for the common practice of prosecutors to require significant corroborating evidence before they bring a perjury case.
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This is a common, often damning criticism, in Section 183 cases and, in the case of entrepreneurs like Mr. Heinbockel, it is entirely misplaced.
However, what disappoints me is the common, implicit assumption that industry science deserves to be treated as a special case, rather than considered within the broader framework of contemporary research.
In one case, the more common of the two, marketers are given a product and told to go sell it.
On June 20, the Supreme Court dismissed a class action against Wal-Mart brought about by its female employees, arguing that the women involved in the case did not share enough in common to meet the requirements of a class action lawsuit.
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"Anyone with any common sense could have seen there was no basis to this case, from a serial complainer well versed in making malicious and vexatious complaints, " he said.
The courts may eventually address some of the access and usage issues in the context of existing common law and statutory privacy torts, but this is a long process developed on a case by case basis.
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So the system is built for compromise, for finding common ground, for reaching a consensus around things that serve the greater good, and in this case, reduce the deficit more substantially.
Whatever the case, positing a trend without any historic data based on a single data point has become a common media mistake (or technique, depending on your cynicism).
The Lopez case shows there is a question of how well the Legislature can police itself, said Susan Lerner of Common Cause.
The six judges concluded the broader standard of common law negligence applies in Karen Hastings' case, in which she was injured when her van hit a cow on a public road, and they reinstated her personal injury lawsuit.
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