Word: norm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Norm Eklund Sumner, Wash...
...knowing Jackie Hughes, it won't keep him down. "I think (Colorado Coach) Billy (MacMillan) has been pleased with his play," Rockies' announcer Norm Jones said. "He's been playing with a little more confidence every time, even with the nine games out of the lineup. He's been a good, steady defenseman with the club," Jones added, "and coming back from surgery takes time...
Fierce competition has been the norm since Congress deregulated the airline industry two years ago. Discount fares like the Super Saver cut ticket prices by up to 55%. For a while, the crowds of new passengers kept earnings up, but the combination of rising fuel costs and recession sent the airlines into a downdraft. Since 1979 the price of jet fuel has jumped from 40? per gal. to 92?, while passenger traffic has slid by 3%. The major carriers, which earned a record $1.2 billion in 1978, have lost a total of $333 million...
...when apocalyptic thinking is the norm, Ratliff is no exception. "We are living at a precipice," he insists, and letter after letter rails against the MX missile, the concept of limited nuclear war, or draft registration. But though the days are dark Ratliff says men must steel themselves to action. "Whether we can avert tragedy I don't know. I do know we ought to be moving in the right direction. Where's there's life there's hope, and anyway humans have never had a guarantee on tomorrow," he says. And, he adds, "If we go down, then...
...course, Philadelphia's sports teams have all contributed mightily to the city's inferiority complex. The Phillies losing the final six games of the season in 1964; the 76ers winning but eight games in 1973; the Eagles collapsing after Norm Van Brocklin's departure. And Penn football...always...