Word: normalization
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...positive issue of the less-than-four-year union of Mills and McCartney. She needn't have worried about Beatrice. The 58-page document written by the judge, Justice Hugh Bennett, contains little personal detail about her daughter, apart from McCartney's plea that the child should enjoy a normal life. "It is not healthy for a child to have security 24/7. It sets them apart from their peers and makes them an object of curiosity and, at times, ridicule," he said in his submission to the court. "Such children live in gilded cages. I do not want that...
...When I first arrived in Ramadi, the streets were deserted, and there were constant sounds of gunfire,” Munir said. “But by the time I left in November ’07, we never heard gunfire. Kids were walking to school. Marketplaces were open. Normal life was returning...
...have aimed for transparency in your management of the municipality [of Tehran], giving biannual reports on the state of city projects, the monies spent, and putting time limits on development projects. This should be absolutely normal, but in Iran, it's the exception. Why is there such poverty in management here? The main point is that our economy is public and must be privatized. A bill's been signed and we're in that process, but it's much too slow, and the government is investing massively in business at the same time that it's supposed to privatize...
...living, even though it was in Baghdad, it is actually very, very rural. We had to move our strykers to let herds of sheep go by. Then you go maybe 15 kilometers, or even 5 kilometers to the west or east and it gets very urban. Also, just how normal the people are. They're dealing with a very, very difficult situation and yet life kind of goes on. It just has to for them...
...good time.” But Celtic Languages and Literatures Professor Catherine McKenna said the parades and celebrations associated with St. Patrick’s Day now do not reflect the original religious significance of the holiday. In Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day was observed as a normal saint’s day with a feast and religious ceremonies until the 1960s. “I was talking to one of my students the other day, and she said, ‘You know, knowing what I know now about Patrick, I think that he wouldn?...