Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several years. In New York City Ronald Lauder, a former U.S. Ambassador to Austria and now a Republican candidate for mayor, claimed he had so distrusted Bloch that he had him fired. Lauder backed down when the State Department pointed out that Bloch was reassigned to Washington in a normal rotation of duties...
...study last year by the Rand Corp. found that litigation often does not yield the jackpots that the public imagines. Rand found that airlines and other defendants paid victims' families less than half their average "economic loss," the value of what the deceased would have earned in a normal lifetime. Jury verdicts averaged $599,000 per victim. Still, the odds are good enough and the stakes high enough to ensure that lawyers will continue to litigate these cases avidly. As insurer Magee puts it, "This whole business has come to take on a lottery mentality. If someone gets hurt this...
...assassins. Others saw themselves as business associates, friends or religious saviors. But the rest acted like spouses or suitors. Says Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist in Newport Beach, Calif., who directed the project: "If you didn't know who the two people were, you would think it was a normal love letter." About 15% of the writers tried to approach the stars personally, usually at their homes...
...landing on Runway 31 (on a northwest bearing of 310 degrees), where most of the emergency crews were waiting. He told the tower that he would aim instead for Runway 22 (southwest at 220 degrees), which was 6,880 ft. long -- just enough to handle a DC-10 under normal circumstances. When the jet appeared headed toward Runway 22 on a surprisingly level and steady approach, anxious ground observers were elated. Haynes radioed the tower, "I think I'm going to make...
Since most West Bank schools were first closed in February 1988, many Palestinian youngsters have hardly seen the inside of a normal classroom. A generation of six- and seven-year-olds have been growing up illiterate. Some have studied sporadically at "underground" schools set up by Palestinian activists in isolated buildings and mosques. But the risks have been high. "If the Israeli army finds the place, the teacher will be arrested, the children will start to run away -- and the army shoots," says Karemah, a Palestinian mother who refused to send her children to an illegal class near Bethlehem...