Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected people to be buried with their noses in books all the time, studying. But it isn't really like that at all. Some people do that, of course, but most people lead pretty normal lives," he said...
...People in neighborhoods like Harlem are so terrified of young criminals that normal, everyday transactions-like crossing the street or selling goods-have become fraught with fear," says Associate Editor Edwin Warner, who wrote this week's cover story on the growing American scourge of juvenile crime. The article profiles a new breed of delinquent-youngsters who casually commit murder, rape, assault and arson. It discusses the reasons for their delinquency, and describes the floundering juvenile justice system that must deal with them...
...suicides that were highly publicized in the state, including those of Playwright William Inge, Japanese Novelist Yukio Mishima and California Wine Maker A. Korbel. Phillips' finding: on the third day after such a suicide, auto fatalities rose by 30%; they leveled off for the week at 9% above normal. "In general," notes Phillips, "the more publicity given to the suicide story, the more the number of auto fatalities rises...
...court's majority was perhaps on firmest ground in contending that the whole question of public funding of abortion ought to be resolved by legislators rather than by judges. Wrote Powell: "We leave entirely free both the Federal Government and the states, through the normal process of democracy, to provide the desired funding. The issues present policy decisions of the widest concern. They should be resolved by the representatives of the people, not by this court...
...24th and 25th prisoners of the scandal, and the final major Watergate figures to be jailed. Last week the Justice Department closed the office of the special Watergate prosecutor. The few remaining investigations of Nixon campaign contributors and other spillovers of Watergate will flow through Justice's normal channels...