Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growth figures were only a preliminary estimate and that the economy was bound to improve "in the near future." But outside the Reagan Administration, some of Washington's policymakers were less confident. Fretted Republican Jake Garn of Utah, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee: "There's more than the normal level of uncertainty in the economy." Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker warned that the current expansion is in "growing jeopardy" unless the U.S. can curb its burgeoning trade deficit, which reached a record $148.5 billion last year...
...against those who had stayed home and labored under the Germans: "A Frenchman abroad should be his country's advocate rather than a witness for the prosecution." He had the temerity to criticize the Gaullists: "Because this group is taking part in the fight outside France and constitutes a normal 'foreign legion,' it claims the reward of ruling the France of tomorrow. It's absurd. The essential characteristic of sacrifice is that it claims no rights." In his politics as well as his piloting, Saint-Exupery proved an inveterate soloist...
...Stoughs heard that she had qualified for special admission to selective Bard College in Annandale-on- Hudson, N.Y. Under the Bard plan, Carla will owe only the modest annual sum of $3,742, which she would have paid at her local state university in Shippensburg, instead of Bard's normal $14,550. Furthermore, Bard will match any additional financial aid Shippensburg might have offered, so that Carla's actual costs when she starts school in the fall may be, literally, carfare...
...pressure to perform is fierce: 20 players compete for every place on one of the national teams. Says Jakub Zvara, 15, a member of the Prague center, presently ranked 20th in Czechoslovakia in his age group: "I am sacrificing everything, including training and education for a normal job, for tennis. If I am not a good player, then I am nothing." The payoff: a chance to travel freely in the West, rake in hard-currency winnings, and live better than Central Committee members. Any player 18 or over with 120 points on the international tennis rating scale in singles...
...added that conclusions drawn from this single case would need to be confirmed by future studies. "More research must be conducted on younger subjects in order to discover normal response rates to bright light exposure," said James Allan '86, Czeisler's assistant, whose project inspired the study...