Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hello, Banana? Change money?" That sales pitch, unusually direct for China, was routinely delivered last week by jeans-clad youths outside Peking's Jianguo Hotel. The bananas, mostly imported from Ecuador, were the vendors' customary, and legal, merchandise. The offer to trade currency was neither normal nor legal-especially since the trade was 150 Chinese renminbi for 100 of the foreign-exchange certificates issued to non-Chinese that are officially valued...
...East-West statements. Noting the milder tone of recent U.S. rhetoric, Chernenko declared, "If the statements that are being made lately hi Washington with regard to the desire to seek solutions to problems of arms limitation do not remain just words, we could, at last, start moving toward more normal relations between our two countries." Responded Shultz: "We agree with the goals he states...
...Intensive Feeding Center, as the shed is known, was restricted to those children who were 70% below normal weight for their age. They were given pink wristbands and fed four times a day. Those children who were just a little further from death were given red bands and taken to a second shed to be fed twice a day. The doors to both sheds had to be guarded at all times against the crush of hungry people desperate to gain entry...
...Konstantin Chernenko called for an increase in his country's defense capability. Then, in answers to written questions submitted by NBC News Correspondent Marvin Kalb, Chernenko suddenly appeared more conciliatory. If Washington is sincere about arms-limitation talks, he said, "we could, at last, start moving toward more normal relations between our two countries...
...fatal defect called hypoplastic left heart, had received the heart of a seven-month-old female baboon on Oct. 26 and made steady progress for the next two weeks. In a touching videotape made just four days after surgery, Baby Fae was seen yawning and stretching, seemingly a normal infant in every respect. By the second week she was no longer dependent on a supplementary oxygen supply or intravenous feeding. (Read "Baby Fae Stuns the World...