That's a pretty reasonable, middle-of-the-road, common-sense approach to both tax reform and entitlement reform.
But the United States should not accept the premise that we should tolerate whatever the lowest-common-denominator reforms are.
India, with its English-language skills and common-law tradition is well-placed to secure a big share of the business.
In 2011 France gave common-or-garden lawyers the right to create binding documents similar to those endorsed by notaries.
The capital that earns a variable return--the equity, the common stock--is taxed twice.
But not in Asia, where counterfeit tablets are increasingly common -- and dangerous.
Both did have one thing in common -- in that they were focused on 2008 as much as 2004.
Indeed, let's enshrine this new principle--that the government should purchase, not seize, land for the common good--in a constitutional amendment.
While cyberbullying is becoming a common -- and easy -- platform for bullying, traditional face-to-face bullying remains widespread in schools.
That may explain why offers like 99-cent hamburgers and 0% financing on cars--which appeal strictly to cold common sense--sometimes backfire.
Against all expectations--and possibly common sense--the DeLorean is back in limited production, and with it has come a boomlet in DeLoreaniana.
They may not have anything outside of the last two years in common -- and they don't talk about that too much.
Security researchers say that virtualization-based attacks aren't likely to be common--even though measuring the actual number of attacks on companies is difficult.
One thing the oldest and youngest do have in common--most were self-made.
Common-law principles are regularly being modified by legislation in all common-law jurisdictions.
You may have all U.S. large-cap stocks, the most common out-of-balance portfolio.
The conclusion: Certain types of hard news stories can be considerably more lucrative for the sites that run them than click-friendly lowest-common-denominator sensationalism.
Baker-Hamilton's theory goes that, since they have come up with a lowest-common-denominator report, there is no alternative to its adoption as U.S. policy.
Frequent vacuuming -- another common suggestion -- may actually be counterproductive.
Lowest-common-denominator hits, after all, are an important part of their business.
Infrastructure development is a common--and significant--expense in venue construction, Reichard says.
Typical of his ability to see patterns, he notes that, today, his rabbi's name is Harry, and the name of his ex-common-law wife rhymes with Beary.
Many of the state laws seeking to restrict what children may read demonstrate a lack of tolerance and prohibit access to ideas based on a lowest-common-denominator viewpoint.
We have very specific concerns -- and I think they're fairly common sense -- I think the American people, and quite frankly, anybody in the world could understand.
But antivirus drugs, aimed at viral, rather than bacterial, invaders--HIV, herpes, hepatitis, flu, the common cold--have been harder to come by because viruses are harder to outwit and tame.
Kind of how you'd install an operating system, automatically receive some baseline functionality using least-common-denominator hardware drivers, then install specialized drivers for your machine's video, sound, and network cards?
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But even if they do, the "Grand Compromise" should be unacceptable to those who bear, first and foremost, the responsibility for assuring the common defense -- the Nation's military leadership.
This ability transformed Disney from a common-or-garden media mogul into an embodiment of the American dream, the winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a fixture on the front cover of news magazines.
Connie fixed Seth with her steady, we-have-nothing-in-common gaze.
So it was for this reason--against all common sense--that we organized our expedition into the Cardamoms, guided by Hunter Weiler of the conservation group Fauna and Flora International and Department of Wildlife enforcement officer Chheang Dany.
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