Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What statistics does LaGrone have available for children of grocery clerks or of traveling salesmen? The military makes such a convenient, homogeneous target for studies such as his. We are just as normal and abnormal as any other segment of the population...
...year's end. The U.S. and the People's Republic ended seven years of gingerly courtship that began with the Nixon-Kissinger initiatives. In simultaneous communiques from Peking and Washington, Chairman and Premier Hua Kuo-feng and President Carter announced that the two countries would exchange ambassadors and begin normal diplomatic relations. The normalization opens potentially lucrative avenues of trade and new perspectives on world politics, even though it will be a long time before Peking joins Washington and Moscow as a capital of first-rank global power...
...their jobs. Chieftain tanks and Russian-built armored cars, which had been in evidence everywhere, were now out of sight. Soldiers ventured into restaurants and parked their automatic weapons in corners as they ate. Locked in a monumental traffic jam, a Western diplomat sighed: "Things are back to normal in Tehran...
...quite. The Shah had gained, at best, some breathing time in which to come to terms with his massive opposition. Oil workers were still on strike, costing Iran as much as $60 million a day in lost revenues and cutting production to as little as one-fifth of the normal flow. Premier Gholam Reza Azhari went on television to appeal to the oil workers to go back to work, declaring that their strike was "bending the backs of 34 million Iranians." Azhari said he was "ashamed to admit" that petroleum-rich Iran was being forced to import kerosene, which most...
...inflation is Public Enemy No. 1, that it is persistent and pervasive, and that it has built up such terrifying momentum in the U.S. as to be unstoppable, for the moment, unless the nation reduces the roughly 4%-per-year economic growth rate that it had come to consider normal...