Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend Sue called the hotel in Chicago where the Red Sox were staying on road trip. She asked for Butch Hobson's room. She talked to Butch Hobson. I was jealous, but never stopped to question why an 11-year-old could carry on a perfectly normal conversation with an older man she had never met, halfway across the country...
Problematic race relations at Harvard make it difficult for a minority student to pursue a normal career here and maintain ties to his ethnic heritage. Several incidents at Harvard, and around the nation's campuses, displayed the simmering tensions that exist between the minorities and the majority on the nation's campuses. A more subtle racism prevails among the more enlightened students. You catch it in a glance, in a whispered comment behind your back, in a loud joke. Such attitudes, which are even more prevalent when you walk outside the ivy-covered walls into the Square, make it difficult...
...allowed employees to test-drive some of the company's new autos with their odometers disconnected and later sell the cars as new. That practice led to a grand-jury indictment against the company and two of its executives two weeks ago. Chrysler had vigorously defended its actions as normal quality-testing procedures in the industry, but amid a storm of adverse publicity, Iacocca decided that the smart thing to do was to make amends...
...roll back what they saw as a pattern of alarming Communist advances. They quickly grew impatient with congressional restrictions and the inbred caution of the State Department, the Pentagon and even the CIA. They turned increasingly to covert operations, including some not subject to the checks and balances of normal Government. That, combined with sloppy management from the President on down, opened the way to, if it did not make inevitable, the ascendancy of a can-do zealot like Ollie North...
...results are already perceptible. Typical of the changing scene are some recent comments by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose country has received nearly $20 billion in U.S. aid since 1975. When asked by a Saudi magazine about Egypt's relations with the U.S., Mubarak described them as "normal." But when asked about his country's relations with the Soviet Union, which had been practically nonexistent in the 1970s and early 1980s, Mubarak replied, "They are very good...