Word: normalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficulties will begin with the rocket launching. The acceleration pressure of 8 g. [eight times gravity's pull] will make breathing difficult. His respiratory muscles will strain to overcome the crushing force, and breathing will become irregular. The heart will double its normal rate. The instruments before his eyes fade from view in a brown haze. The feet and arms are now difficult to move because they are eight times heavier than normal. Consciousness clouds, and for a moment he will wait in heavy, silent oppression. Weightless World. Then his body will become suddenly light, as the rocket burns...
...actually they were not told the truth. Though the touted figures show that jobs increased by 600,000 over normal during March and that unemployment declined 190,000 beyond normal during the same period, they do not show that the hard core of joblessness was affected. To the contrary, long-term unemployment, a figure reflecting those who have been without work for more than 15 weeks, increased by 80,000 to 1,544,000. The durable goods industries--which had been hardest hit by last year's recession--showed little more than the already predicted recovery rate, about...
Both the heavies and lightweights were forced to cancel two-thirds of the normal number of days spent on the river before vacation. The result of the late winter ice, the fifteen extra days in the tank have set the crews two weeks behind the majority of their opponents...
...figures are released this week, they will probably show a 300,000 reduction in unemployment, to about 4,400,000. Seasonally adjusted, the figure is still about 6% of the labor force, and it leads economists to wonder if perhaps they should take a new reading on what is "normal" unemployment...
Captain Hal Churchill scored two of the three point tries, while wing forward Ted Frembgen and hooker Albie Cullen accounted for the others. The score would doubtless have been higher had the makeshift field been equipped with goal posts to allow for the normal after-try conversions...