Word: normalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...normal political life of a democracy, laws and institutions are what count. Even a leader as forceful and as long in office as Margaret Thatcher can suddenly leave, and while the world certainly notices, the event doesn't constitute a national, much less an international crisis...
...these days there is nothing normal about Soviet politics. In a way, there never has been. In the bad old days of Stalinism and stagnation, the personality of the leader mattered so much because he stood at the top of a hierarchical system -- and at the center of a highly centralized one. What he said counted because anyone who disagreed with him could be shot or at least banished from public life...
...Deputies opened last week. Charging that Gorbachev had lost the "moral right to lead the country," she moved a vote of no confidence in him. It failed, 1,288 to 426, but the spectacle was deeply unsettling to Eduard Shevardnadze, who asked in his resignation speech, "Is this normal...
...Soviets that question. I cannot say exactly how the Soviet leadership would have reacted. But in September 1981 we were told by the Soviets that the following year they would be able to supply us with ) only 4 million tons of crude oil, compared with the normal 13 million tons. We were also warned that there would be similar proportional reductions in supplies of other raw materials, including cotton. Other members of the bloc would have reacted in a similar fashion. In other words, a total economic blockade awaited us unless we resolved our internal problems...
...greeters" at the door. The auto dealer in nearby Monroe made a toll call to find out if he was satisfied with a repair. Strangers always wave at him as they drive by. "One man, a white man, he had a whole arm out of the car. That's normal, natural around here," he says...