Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that only about five percent of diabetics--mostly those who get the disease before age 20 (the "juvenile diabetics" of whom there are about 80,000 in the U.S.)--have an absolute requirement for insulin because their pancreas stops being able to make it, whereas most diabetics produce normal or greater than normal amounts, but appear to suffer from insulin insensitivity. Over time, as they are given insulin, they become less and less responsive to it, and then often are given more and more, so setting up a vicious circle...
...Under normal circumstances, this would be a nothing game, a contest for supremacy between the two bottom teams in the Ivy League soccer ranks. But today's soccer game pits Harvard against Yale and as forward Walter Diaz says, "This game is so important, it's like making a whole season...
However, a spot check of the building's men's rooms late Tuesday afternoon revealed a normal supply of toilet paper, and three janitors and a security guard said that they knew nothing about the raid...
...problems there are. The Kirkland JCR stage was apparently designed by an AT&T engineer who, having done his best for the world of telephone booths, decided to grace the world of theater; perhaps a troupe of leprechauns could work a dance number in there, but normal human beings have noticeable difficulties. The same holds true for the rest of the scenes: it is simply impossible to fit more than four people comfortably on that platform, which can only hurt a musical such as this, relying as it does on a large cast. Perhaps an extraordinary director and choreographer could...
...season when the industry considers a 60-day inventory of unsold cars to be normal, Chrysler has an 81-day supply; for some of its Japanese imports, including the Plymouth Sapporo and Arrow models, the sales backlog exceeds 150 days. For lack of models, the company has been virtually shut out of the full-size car market, which now constitutes 29% of industry sales. And when the company introduced its new full-size 1979 Chrysler New Yorker and Dodge St. Regis models with a vigorous publicity blitz in early October, it had almost no cars to sell because of production...