Word: norm
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Hopkins' suffering typified a number of major problems complicating relations between the Government and Viet Nam veterans. First, the Reagan Administration had announced plans to make deep cuts in the VA budget. Second, most VA hospitals are far better equipped to handle physical disabilities, which are the norm among older veterans, than psychological disabilities, which predominate among Viet Nam vets. Third, the VA has been slow to acknowledge the existence of "delayed stress syndrome," mental illnesses that arise years after their cause has ceased-in this case the war. Fourth, the Government has rejected the claim of thousands...
...result, HMC's current strategy is to recommit itself to the bond market and reduce exposure in common stocks. This strategy represents a substantial change from recent year, during which the proportion of Harvard's portfolio invested in stocks reach a high of 75 per cent from a norm during the '70s of about 60 per cent. "What we're trying to do is say where is the better value? We don't see how an economy can continue to prosper with very high interest rates," Cabot says...
...unwashed hands, shortly after dissecting corpses. The agency of infection is clear, and so is the stormy response of complacently entrenched ignorance. In the title role, Jeffrey DeMunn is prickly, volatile and poignant. Playwright Sackler reanimates the theme of his The Great White Hope: a man who defies the norm and opens society's eyes may well be crushed by society's iron fist. -By T.E.Kalem
...volcano. But most are making money cleaning up. Tom Henderson, a foreman of a team of loggers working to salvage what might be as much as $50 million worth of downed timber for Weyerhaeuser Co., gets $11.80 an hour, plus a $6-a-day hazardous-duty bonus. So does Norm Pettit, who came from Coos Bay, Ore., because "this is the only boom area in logging in the county." Jobs with cleanup and logging crews have attracted enough newcomers to push enrollment in the Toutle school district from a pre-eruption 502 children to a current...
...Attack Norm Forbush, who hit a peak yesterday after steadily improving following an early season injury, powered the squad with six goals and an assist, including a shot with two seconds remaining to give Harvard...