Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...momentarily, at any rate, the least boring public building in Manhattan. Some of it works; some of it doesn't; that is what is interesting. The chairs are, perhaps, too lively. Not just the ones that stab you -- also the ones made of mahogany laminate that have two normal legs on the front but only one stainless-steel leg at the rear, so that anyone who tilts backward rolls over abruptly, heels...
Programs generally require patients to be from 15% to 30% above normal weight in order to qualify. However, these standards may not always be adhered to. Says Ann Coulston, a senior research dietitian at Stanford University Medical Center: "The institution offering the program is eager to get as many people as possible for revenue-generating purposes. People may get admitted who don't meet the criteria." Some experts would prefer to see the diets used only for very obese patients, those who are at least 50% overweight...
Mitchell is also concerned with the obscured role of women in Swedish culture. He says, "Women were frozen out of all normal modes of expression in society...
...industry's participation may prove especially important, because television has in the past presented alcohol and drug abuse as a normal part of life...
While the economy grew at a relatively modest 2.6% annual rate during the third quarter, the expansion actually amounted to 3.2% if the effects of the summer drought are excluded. That level of growth, while not quite inflationary in normal times, is straining against a shortage of workers and factory capacity. Unemployment in the U.S. has remained at low levels, though the Government reported last week that the jobless rate for November inched up to 5.4%, compared with 5.3% the previous month. Factories were operating at 84% of total capacity, the highest level since February...