Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defective heaters. An additional 29 people were crushed under avalanches in the Georgian republic. Temperatures in Leningrad dropped to -31 degrees F, the lowest reading there since meteorological data were first kept in 1743. In Moscow, where the thermometer hit -32 degrees, the city's residents burned twice their normal daily average of gas and fuel oil and overworked heating systems failed in many apartment buildings...
Enter the Gipper himself, half convalescent and half President, treading gingerly but gaining strength. There are a few more wrinkles around his eyes, and his weight is down a couple of pounds from the hospital stay. Color a bit bleached. But every vital sign normal, and the crew of doctors unanimous in their belief that he is hale physically. Being President actually prolongs a man's life, statistics suggest. "The doctors said he had the insides of a 50- year-old, and I intend to keep him that way," says Nancy Reagan...
...most part, the folks were just normal. Given a choice between poverty, loneliness and fear in a democracy, and relative prosperity, family and safety in a totalitarian regime, the returning Soviets chose the latter. Like most human beings, they eschewed ideology and high ideals for a chance to enjoy life just a bit more than before...
...chartered a yacht and sailed to Sardinia, docking it between Aristotle Onassis' boat and that of King Constantine of Greece. "Suddenly," says Khashoggi, "I saw that it was a small club of people who talked and socialized with each other. It was so difficult to meet these people in normal circumstances. This opened my eyes to the fact that there was a certain way to penetrate these classes of people, by meeting them on their own ground...
Railroad stations in cities as staid and ordered as Grenoble and Lyons look like those in Naples. Among the throngs of stranded passengers, French families accustomed to better things share sausages and bread, using newspapers as picnic tablecloths. With rail traffic cut to 40% of normal, queues form behind charter-bus drivers showing their destinations on cardboard signs and shouting out the departure times. In Lyons's Part Dieu station, an illuminated advertising billboard shows a streaking orange superspeed train and carries the slogan that with the national French railway EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Some irate, but erudite passenger has scrawled...