Word: normalization
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...most women - including those who are underweight, normal weight or even overweight at conception - the guidelines remain unchanged from the original 1990 standards: women with a healthy body mass index, or BMI (a ratio of height and weight used to define obesity), of 18 to 25 are advised to gain 25 to 35 pounds during pregnancy. Overweight women with a BMI of 25 to 29.5 should gain less, up to 25 pounds; underweight women, with BMIs below 18.5, should gain more, up to 40 pounds...
...normal" in housing is that home prices which have dropped 20% or more may drop further. Even under the best of circumstances, prices will not recover...
...Several economists are projecting the GDP growth in the U.S. may stay below 2% for three of four years and that 8% unemployment will become what they call "the new normal." Housing will not recover much if those assessments are true. Over the last decade the unemployment rate has been closer to 5% than to 8%. The three percentage point difference in a labor force which numbers more than 100 million people is a hole in the economy that cannot be filed. People without work are not going to be home buyers...
...that stage and it's very multicultural - and in a really broad way, a kind of diversity you can't see just by looking: socioeconomic diversity, religious diversity, a diversity of interests. That documentary brought out the idea that all these kids are just kids. They come from normal schools, normal homes. They're all interesting...
...money and our working conditions have gotten worse," Elke Rumps, a kindergarten teacher in Cologne tells TIME. "We take kids from 10 months old, [we look after] large groups, and parents expect so much from us. We have to integrate kids from families with social problems, carry out our normal teaching duties and also have to fill out countless forms - it's very emotional and stressful work...