Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particularly provocative move, it evicted a leftist Islamic group, the people's Mujahedin, from its headquarters in the former offices of the Shah's Pahlavi Foundation. Mujahedin leaders claimed Khomeini himself had assured them that they could keep their headquarters if they engaged only in normal political activity, but the authorities in Tehran did not budge...
North Dallas Forty is a painful movie. That is to say, it is a movie mostly about pain-the god-awful physical consequences of playing professional football for a living. It is about the sport's normal bruising, which can render a fit young stud so lame that it is agony for him to roll out of bed the morning after a game. But more important, it is about pain at the abnormal levels, about the anesthetizing pills the guys pop to endure daily practice, and the even more dangerous stuff they receive in shots on game...
Early last week evidence of the company's woes increased. Chrysler announced that another 4,600 workers had been laid off, bringing the total to 23,800, nearly a quarter of its normal blue-collar force. Chrysler also reported that, partly to save money, it was pulling out of a proposed joint venture with a Taiwan company to produce trucks. And lacocca disclosed that the company was considering dramatic cash rebates to customers of up to $500 a car; the aim would be to clear its staggering factory stockpile of nearly 80,000 unsold vehicles, valued at just under...
Such speech, widely known as black English, is customarily pounced upon by teachers trying to teach standard English usage. Though that would seem a normal part of pedagogy, a small group of Green Road parents felt that teachers were expressing their disapproval of black English too harshly, causing student embarrassment and hurting the children's chances to learn. The parents filed a federal suit in Michigan's Eastern District Court, demanding that school authorities "recognize" black English as a formal dialect with historic roots and grammatical rules...
There is one caveat in these strategies: all could possibly interfere with healing processes in normal tissue and lead to serious bleeding. But, says Dvorak, some bleeding might be less dangerous than many of the destructive anticancer drugs and radiation treatments now being used...