Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Levine said on the radio that in his meeting with Shevardnadze, he told the Soviet leader "we would be very happy to have more or less normal relations. Normal is a very acceptable term in the Soviet Union and I took advantage of this opportunity...
...saying in a fervent voice at that morning's session of foster families. Connecticut has a policy against letting HIV-positive children languish in hospitals or boarding institutions. What it has instead are these 18 foster families, a kind of loose-knit secret society dedicated to giving the children normal lives. Some of them got started as foster parents because they knew the birth mother, or because they came to know the children in their jobs as nurses or social workers. They got together for the first time as a group with the help of Rachel Rossow, who works...
...CEOs of the big media corporations are almost all white, male, conservative and Republican. Most of the corporations are members of the Fortune 500, and many invest in banking, nuclear power, defense or energy industries. Bagdikian writes that it is "normal for all large businesses to make serious efforts to influence the news, to avoid embarassing publicity and to maximize sympathetic public opinion and governmental policies. Now they own most of the news media that they wish to influence...
...lives of many children afflicted with cancer, was a profile in courage. Stricken with the disease at age 10, Tom missed most of his sixth-grade year because of intensive chemotherapy but insisted on being promoted with his class. In spite of significant physical limitations, Tom strove to be normal and did more than succeed. He graduated third in his class with high honors from Noble and Greenough High School, where he was editor-in-chief of the campus literary magazine, captained the golf team and won the school's highest award for creative writing in his senior year...
Allen said that such a postponement is normallymade on a case-by-case basis, saying, "There isn'tany normal procedure on that kind of issue...