Word: normalize
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...Symptoms. While precise definitions of dyslexia vary, most experts agree that it appears to be inherited in many cases, but may also be the result of early brain injury, and that it leads to reading difficulties in children who otherwise show normal intelligence in mental tests. Dyslexics display a whole syndrome of symptoms (some of which are no cause for concern in preschool-age children, but may indicate dyslexia if they persist beyond this age). Usually they confuse spatial relationships. Horizontally, this leads, for example, to spelling first as frist, very as vrey. Vertically, it may cause mixups between...
Many a layman who has just had an electrocardiogram takes his doctor's verdict of "ECG normal" as an assurance of a long and healthy life. Cardiologists know better. The repetitive squiggles on the ECG paper are simply a graphic recording of the electrical impulses that signal the heart's contractions. While an ECG will reveal some types of heart abnormality, and specifically whether a man has recently had a heart attack, it has limited predictive value-a fact made dramatically clear in the case of Lyndon B. Johnson, then Majority Leader of the Senate...
...being hurt by the uncontrolled squalor and rapacity of the riffraff. So just before things boiled over in Tet New Year roistering last January, Air Cav General Harry W. O. Kinnard stepped in and declared all of An Khe off limits to his men. Prices soon dropped back toward normal, the disease rates dipped. But the men of the Air Cav, out fighting in the jungles for weeks at a time in some of the bitterest, bloodiest battling of the war, had little to come home to. In March, the division's first cases of "battle fatigue" showed...
...time June came, when we had to leave, the school was running smoothly and the classes were well established in normal secondary school curriculum. Other V.T.A. teachers were arriving to fill our places, but we all regretted that we could not stay longer to see further progress in the work that we had begun
...Normally, the news that the U.S. economy scored its biggest spurt in 15 years would be cause for rejoicing. Now, nothing is normal, and last week's report that the gross national product jumped $16.9 billion in the year's first quarter, to a record annual rate of $714 billion, gave Washington's economy watchers an acute case of the jitters. It heightened fears that the economy is inflating too fast and that President Johnson may have to hike taxes to slow things down...