Word: normalities
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...hedge against crop failure and inflation, save their foreign exchange and their funds for industrial development, and generally help to bolster the Indian economy. The agreement assures other free-world countries that they will not be deprived of Indian markets, provides India with enough purchasing power to maintain her normal imports of agricultural commodities from Canada, Denmark and New Zealand. As for the Indians, New Delhi was as cool and silent as Indian officials in the U.S. were vocally grateful. Proclaiming that the agreement would enable India to go ahead with its second five-year plan, Indian Minister...
...stop advertising in Red papers. When private businessmen also pulled out, advertising virtually vanished from the Communist press. Furthermore, where the Reds once got all the newsprint they wanted from Iron Curtain nations on unlimited credit terms, the Italian government refused import permits except for newsprint bought through normal channels, thus made the Communists pay out their cash for their supplies. As a result L'Unita alone loses more than half a cent for every copy it prints, has piled up a whopping $5,000,000 deficit over the last few years...
Quite apart from whether or not the figures were reliable, the Kinsey studies raised moral questions-because of Kinsey's very insistence that he had nothing to do with moral questions, a concept he refused to acknowledge in any case. To Kinsey anything was "biologically normal" that is done by a sizable number of people-or animals. By that logic almost nothing could be called abnormal. The notion fitted in with other thinkers' concept of quantitative morality, i.e., right and wrong are not fixed values but mere fluctuating curves on a statistical graph. Thus "The Kinsey Report" became...
Finchden's 40 boys have an average age of 17, come from every sort of home and background. Some are rich, some poor, quite a few come from what would seem to be normal families. One boy was the victim of an alcoholic schoolmaster who would sometimes tie his hands behind his back, force him to eat until he vomited, and then refuse to allow him to change his soiled clothes. One boy had been to 17 schools by the time he was 16. Others were regularly beaten or mistreated by their parents or foster parents. A good many...
...dropping "Used Cars Wanted" signs into their showroom windows; in Seattle, Dallas, Omaha and Detroit, salesmen were unable to satisfy consumers' demands for good '53-'55 models. The National Automobile Dealers Association estimated that U.S. used-car inventories, from "creampuffs" to "dogs,"* were one-third below normal...