Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist home land for the West in recent weeks, most people crossing on the weekend were just visiting, taking advantage of the freedom created by Thursday's opening of East Germany's borders. By last night, the border gridlock had eased, and West Berlin's streets were returning to normal...
...supreme body of power. It is quite another question whether it is fully ready to carry out all its functions. There are many Deputies who do not have enough knowledge, experience, patience and even mutual respect. But it will come. With every passing month, the situation becomes more normal and settled. We have to learn behavior that corresponds to the importance of this body...
...that although society has grown more tolerant of divergent life-styles, homosexuals still endure widespread hostility and a marked threat of AIDS and violence. Some young homosexuals go to enormous lengths to deny their sexuality. Teenage lesbians have been known to become pregnant in order to prove they are "normal...
...living room, monkeys trash the kitchen, an 8-ft. snake luxuriates on the living-room mantel. A monsoon erupts, and volcanic lava fills the house, until, on the brink of disaster, Peter and Judy manage to end the game before their parents come home. The house instantly returns to normal. But then neighboring children take the game to their own house to play, unaware of the dangers lurking within...
...publishers, the commercial risk -- of his latest book, a collaboration with novelist Mark Helprin on a retelling of the Swan Lake legend (Houghton Mifflin; $19.95). He and Helprin received an unprecedented $801,000 advance, and the first printing is 275,000 copies, at least ten times the normal first run for an illustrated children's book. Swan Lake's publication, quite simply, is the biggest gamble in the history of children's books...