Word: normale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reunion official who asked not to be identified said attendance was normal. "It's not the biggest ever--557 out of 1140 living members--and it's certainly not the smallest," she said. Over 2500 people are attending the reunion altogether...
...hours or closing on Sundays earlier in the month saved enough fuel to have some left to dispense on the Memorial Day weekend. There were indications that motorists were curtailing driving a bit too, and in California preholiday freeway traffic, after a sharp drop, was still about 5% below normal. Across the nation, airline, train and bus travel boomed...
...switched to public transportation, and that may be temporary. Large cities reported slightly more passengers on buses and subways. Reservations increased by 16% on airlines and by 40% on Amtrak's trains. Amtrak's 925 reservations clerks were overwhelmed by phone calls-1.3 million, four times the normal number, in the first week of May. Long-distance travel on Greyhound buses was up 20%. Sales of big cars during the first four months of 1979 were 8% lower than a year ago, while sales of small cars rose...
...norm is about 115 volts and 60 cycles. Put simply, this means that the speed of a conventional motor can be automatically varied according to the work it has to do at any moment. When the load is high, the speed-and the amount of electricity consumed-is normal. But when the load is low, the speed-and the amount of energy burned-can be reduced...
Clad in his normal working garb of jeans, sneakers and a T shirt stenciled with the name of a local gym, Pat Jordan looks like the jocks he writes about. The similarity is purely deliberate. Jordan, son of Pasquale Giordano, went through a disastrous season as a professional baseball player and never quite got over it. At 38, he stays in shape by compulsively pumping iron twice a day. He keeps his psyche in trim by reminiscing with cronies in bars. "I make my social contacts there," says Jordan. "Writing is lonely. You have to get out and talk...