Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the hostages come home, the Administration is expected to take a number of steps to improve relations with Tehran. Said Carter at a White House meeting with magazine editors: "We look forward to a time in the future to have normal relationships with Iran." One possible move: the Treasury Department could rescind its freeze on the estimated $6 billion of Iranian assets in the U.S. or on deposit with American banks. Banisadr would like the U.S. to resume shipments of spare parts for Iran's sizable arsenal of U.S.-built sophisticated weaponry...
McCracken said faculty at B.U. have considerable input into the decision-making process. But Levin said "aside from the normal managerial work like scholarships, curriculum and the nomination of new faculty, we have no ultimate...
...work building a mechanical eye. The model immediately provided two insights. First, strain occurs when the two oblique muscles--the muscles in the back of the eye which control its rotation--are tensed greatly, as in reading. The tension stretches and strains the sclera. Though such stretching is normally elastic, if it is both frequent and extreme enough the sclera does not return to its normal position and myopia develops. Second, the eye is least able to reduce strain near the point where the optic nerve enters the eye--Greene draws an analogy with the rivet holes in airplane wings...
...Instead, it is a look at that world through the crossed eyes of a man who sees homosexuals as masochistic, narcissistic, immature, seemingly crazed men. Friedkin considers homosexuality the wrong, evil side of everyman's sexuality, the sexual demon that must be exorcised for man to return to the normal, clean love of a woman...
...into the airy, white space of his girlfriend's apartment. Having finally shed his leather garb, he shaves, staring at his image in the ubiquitous mirror, confronting his self a last time, peeling away his homosexual mask. His ordeal has ended, the beast has been crushed, he is again normal...