In those days, women were a common commodity.
In Bolivia, we consider water to be a common good - a human right, not a commodity.
It's not a common commodity; it's other people's culture.
"You find a college kid, you find a high school kid, you find someone else's coach," Austin said, adding, "They're not a common commodity".
If his buffoonery isn't as shocking as it was in 1964 when the comedy was first unshrouded, it may be because black humor -- much of it nurtured by Orton's few plays -- is a more common commodity now.
The need to be able to move single wagonloads or small wagonload groups (not necessarily for the same shipper or a common commodity but they could be) implies the use of train aggregation to a cost effective formation to justify the direct operational costs (train path, crew, traction, fuel, maintenance) and some form of contribution to overheads.
This is generally true for nonagricultural products in developed countries (other strategies, such as import quotas, are a common means of protecting agricultural commodities).
"What you need above all is brains, which are the one common commodity equally distributed among the world's peoples.
Maybe common sense is a scarce commodity in the age of video games, derivatives, and e-stuff.
