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Word: normalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is still a good deal for landlords, since their buildings are now so depressed in value by the effects of rent control, they now receive, in selling a whole building, only 15-25 percent of what the normal market value would be. Proposition I will offer some tenants affordable homeownership, from $40,000 to $80,000, way below the market price of other Cambridge condominiums...

Author: By Fred Meyer, | Title: Home, Security and Freedom | 3/11/1989 | See Source »

...organizations from Harvard and Wellesley co-sponsored a Blind Date Banquet, pairing students from each school for an evening of dinner and dancing. Although the banquet was open to members of all groups, few non-Asian students participated. The result was that the event became just another retreat from normal, integrated activity...

Author: By Albert Y. Hsia, | Title: Minority Group Self-Segregation | 3/9/1989 | See Source »

...said the 5000 to 6000 idled employees were being notified immediately of their "no-work" status and would receive lump-sum payments ranging from $270 to $640, depending on their normal wages. The laid-off workers include ticket and reservations agents, secretaries and other clerical workers, customer service workers and some management employees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eastern Cuts Back Nearly All Flights | 3/7/1989 | See Source »

...that the University's and the exterminator's control measures are far from adequate: "I don't know what poison the exterminator feeds them, but they just keep getting bigger." At Eliot House, the sentiment is that for some unexplained reason the rats have recently been "more active" than normal...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Rats in Your Dining Hall | 3/7/1989 | See Source »

Everything appeared normal on United Airlines Flight 811. En route from Honolulu to Auckland, New Zealand, the Boeing 747, carrying 336 passengers and a crew of 18, had climbed to 22,000 ft. over the Pacific. As the flight attendants were preparing to roll out the beverage carts, passengers in the forward section heard a hissing noise. Within seconds came a loud thump of bursting metal and a roar of cold air. "It was like a dream," said passenger Gary Garber later. "A section of the plane wasn't there any longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blowout Over The Pacific | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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