Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accord would require that most American and British banks set aside higher-than-normal amounts of capital to cover losses on their riskier loans. British banks have been subject to risk-based capital requirements for several years, but U.S. banks must currently set aside reserves amounting to only 6% of total assets, however speculative their investments...
...interviewees was quoted as saying that the effect of the demonstrations has been socially disruptive--traffic breakdowns, workers showing up late and mothers failing to nurse their children as a result. But isn't causing traffic breakdowns and other related alterations of normal life exactly the appropriate way to express some deep psychological frustrations on the part of the students about the way the government controls and regulates their lives...
...professional football player, Curry learned that only 37 percent of NFL players had a college degree. If you want proof positive that Curry was hired to do more than win, just look at his own record. Coaching at his alma mater, he had a losing record--hardly the normal credentials to coach at one of the premier programs in the country...
...East, angry tides, as high as 8 ft. above normal, surged along Atlantic beaches from the Carolinas to New England, destroying boardwalks and hammering homes. In the West, the highest tides in 20 years briefly closed part of the Pacific Coast Highway. To some, last week the fierce and freakish weather at both ends of the country seemed more than a mere coincidence...
...Blackaller: "My engineers have told me for six years that you can't build a fiber-glass boat light and strong enough . . . under the rules." The Yacht Club Costa Smeralda of Sardinia, organizer of the challenger series, has not responded to the war of words. As a matter of normal procedure, however, it will remeasure and check all semifinalists before racing resumes after Christmas...