Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...clerks, TARP can almost instantly spot errors, determine who has made them, and take steps to discipline or replace the wrongdoer. It constantly monitors the specially coded messages -or interoffice memos, as Avižienis calls them-that pass between the units, and immediately reacts to deviations from normal in the computer chatter. "It's as if a person were to start mispronouncing or slurring words," explains Avižienis. "Illness or intoxication would be immediately suspected...
...interest charge to the most creditworthy corporate customers dropped from 7½ to 7%. The reduction was made not because of a new surge in the money supply-indeed, the supply remained fairly flat in October and November-but because of a weakness in demand for loans. Although the normal growth of the economy would call for a $1 billion increase in bank lending during the summer and fall, bank loans have actually declined by $3.5 billion since June. "Business-loan demand has caved in," says Arthur Okun, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers...
...ever been performed, and no recipient had survived longer than 26 days, the patient said she wanted to take the chance. But where to find a donor? Jane Smith has a sister, Anne, the mother of three. Told that a healthy person can live comfortably with only half the normal length of small intestine, Anne volunteered to give half of hers to her sister. Their blood-cell types proved to be an unusually close match, reducing the probability that a graft would be rejected...
Moynihan cited the problem of black emigration from the ghettos. In his opinion, the Federal government need only keep from acting in such a way as to prevent the normal dispersal of the population outwards. But many agencies have thwarted the natural movement, "such as the FHA, by requiring neighborhoods to use Federal funds to create homogeneous populations...
That's the student movement. I think what's unique about the United States- different from other countries in the past- is not the fact that everybody's willing to accept it if we win; that's normal. But rather it's things like the student movement, which is the really organized mass segment of the population against the war. There have been anti-imperialist movements in the past but they've been pretty restricted. That's why it would be a great tragedy if the student movement lapses into apathy. Especially when the Saigon student movement really needs support...