Word: normalization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...enormous house, playing host to an awful lot of poker games, never unpacking the groceries they brought home and never straightening the place up. Every few months, they would call a cleaning service and move into a hotel while the house was brought back to some level of normal sanitation. This was during the Cravath years (if only they'd known!), when Boies was making his reputation and law was his life...
...scores on tests that measure the level of an individual's day-to-day anxiety. The study's author, research psychologist Jean Twenge of Case Western Reserve University, concluded that today's children are significantly more anxious than their counterparts in the 1950s. In fact, her analysis showed, normal children ages 9 to 17 exhibit a higher level of anxiety today than children who were treated for psychiatric disorders 50 years...
...Gusmorino campaign manager Todd E. Plants '01 shouted to supporters at Gusmorino's victory party Friday night. Throughout the campaign, Gusmorino's campaign departed from tradition, beginning on the day one, when the campaign put up posters on 11 x 17 paper--double the size of the normal posters...
...first glance, Cheney's blood pressure (106/80) and total-cholesterol level (174 mg/dL) seem O.K., but given his medical history, they are not ideal. Cholesterol levels below 200 are normal for most people. But in a heart patient taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, doctors prefer to see levels from 130 to 150--targets best achieved by combining medication with strict diet and exercise...
...collect. Countries such as Iran and Iraq won't pay cash up front; they'll probably barter oil, which will ultimately enrich privately owned oil companies in Russia, but not the state. So we won't get much, but we shall lose our hard-won relations with the normal parts of the world, and we'll find ourselves isolated along with Iraq, Iran and Libya. Putin's visit to Cuba is a part of this strategy...