Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spend much of his time fending off questions about the campaign-finance scandals. Said he: "There have been rumors in the American press that China did this or that, but eventually this will all prove to be untrue." Then Cui added, "We'd like to have a normal relationship with the U.S. Congress." When one considers how America's own special interests pour money into Washington, that's not entirely reassuring...
Amid the breakdown of normal commercial life, shortages of food, fuel and other vital commodities began to grow acute. What could restore order was beyond anyone's guess, although Berisha's resignation seems to be the indispensable start. The Democratic Party leader has been a lightning rod for public rage since the January collapse of more than a dozen get-rich-quick investment schemes that lost the life savings of somewhere between 50% and 90% of the population. Most Albanians believe that Berisha was in cahoots with the operators who ran the pyramid swindles...
...infant twin boys when, in 1963, his penis was damaged beyond repair by a circumcision that went awry. After seeking expert advice at Johns Hopkins Medical School, the parents decided that the child's best shot at a normal life was as an anatomically correct woman. The baby was castrated, and surgeons fashioned a kind of vagina out of the remaining tissue. When "she" grew older, hormone treatments would complete the transformation from boy to girl...
...York City cop of unquestionable honesty, Frankie?s cover is perfect. The script (by David Aaron Cohen, Vincent Patrick and Kevin Jarre) is good about not making too much of this relationship, subtly foreshadowing the betrayal that must come, but allowing these figures room to draw normal human breath. "Pitt and the script cheat a little with his character, not investing him with quite the fanatical glitter a political gunman ought to exhibit," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "But you have to balance that against the reality of Ford?s work?no one half-suppresses, half-reveals strong feelings better...
...khaki cords, a trendy blue Henley, and a wholesome brown bomber jacket walking toward me was not the image I had formed from reading his introspective first novel, In the Deep Midwinter. Here was no disturbed bohemian artist or shy quirky man with a stammer, Robert Clark was startlingly normal...