Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When many members of the class of 1945 moved into their houses, the house master wore a uniform, and not the normal professional coat...
...read the papers every day for war news, andwe watched for the mailman like hawks. Like manyothers, I was engaged to be married, although notto Normal Mailer, and I wrote and received aletter every day. As Harvard students left, Navyand Army officer training a sprinkling ofMexicans, Greeks and Chinese in my economicscourses, which combined graduate students withupper level undergraduates...
While residents generally give Arafat's administration low marks for efficiency, the leading Gazan complaint is economic. Responding to the suicide bombings, Israel has limited the number of Palestinian laborers working in Israel to 29,000, down from the normal 100,000 or so at this time of year. The Gaza Strip has been especially hard hit, as it has little local industry. Trade with Israel has also been sharply curtailed. Because of the new strictures, the unemployment rate is at 58% in Gaza, and merchants are starving for business. True, self-rule there has brought some degree of pride...
...behavior is within the normal range of human-computer interactions. I know an editor at a computer magazine who treats his machine as if it were organic, a delicate ecology of microchips and electric pulsing code. He's put a word-processing program and some bland communications software on it. Nothing more. While every new, cool program comes to him (laser-'em-up games, flight sims, goofy utilities that promise to make his computer bark like a Schnauzer), he refuses to put any of them on his hard drive for fear that doing so would expose it to grave biological...
...they do it? Specter and Wilson believe their pro-choice views on abortion may be the key to an enlarged pool of voters (assuming Bill Clinton remains unopposed on the Democratic side). "Take Iowa first, because it is," says Roger Stone, who is masterminding Specter's campaign. "Figure the normal Iowa turnout of about 110,000 Republican votes, and assume, as everyone does, that Dole will win about 50% of those ballots. With so many players, we could be second with as few as 12,000 votes." Iowa has some moderate Republicans, says Stone, "but not enough. We need Democrats...