Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hazel Crest, Ill., has studied thousands of relapse cases and found that on their way to recovery, alcoholics go through specific stages, each with its dangerous temptation to return to drinking. Early on, it may be hard to cope with withdrawal. Later, the patient may falter in developing a normal family and social life. Finally, there is a period of complacency, when the recovering alcoholic no longer fears drinking as he once did. At each point, says Gorski, "the person is out of control before he actually starts to drink." His solution: counselors who meet regularly with recovering alcoholics...
...spread throughout corporate America. Some 10,000 firms and public agencies, including 70% of the FORTUNE $ 500 companies, now have employee-assistance programs to help alcohol and drug abusers pull their lives together and get back to work. "Before this," says William Durkin, employee assistant manager at ARCO, "the normal handling was to tolerate the alcoholic employee until he became intolerable and then to fire...
Soon, I started to hear chanting. But it wasn't the normal kind of chanting with clapping interspersed. The fans had tried that at the soccen game and it sounded like a large pillow fight...
...guerrillas kidnaped workers at a nearby construction site. One evening, after a reporter rode through the hills outside Laoag to a military camp, the commander said, "I am surprised to see you. I don't even allow my men to travel that road at this hour. Things may look normal, but they aren't." The province, which is Marcos' ancestral home, has been deprived of the pork-barrel largesse that rolled its way during his regime. Aquino has not visited the province, and she would hardly be welcomed if she did. Yet, uncharacteristically for a Philippine politician...
Under the early action program, which was instituted at Harvard in the mid-1970s, high school students submit their applications by November 1, two months before the normal January deadline, and learn their fate in mid-December, four months before regular acceptance letters are sent...