Word: normalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overweight men faced less discrimination, but still have only two-thirds the normal chance of being admitted, Mayer said. Although the study was done in the 1960s, he believes the results are still valid, he said...
...banks, organized more than 1,000 car pools. Bicyclists now weave through the streets. Botany '500' is using delivery trucks to bring 300 workers to its clothing-manufacturing plant; another company has rented a fleet of private buses. ConRail, now handling double its normal number of commuters, has reactivated mothballed equipment. Municipal agencies and many firms have staggered working hours, giving employees the option to come in any time between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. and leave after putting in eight hours. Police are lenient about parking violations. City traffic is heavier, but moving smoothly...
...Country Club is a demanding task-master under normal conditions but the slick greems seem to more than pocket handkerchiefs when the wind is billowing. Although Vik and Paxton posted the Crimson's lowest scores, they hit only five greens in regulation. A fierce wind during the 1963 U.S. Open held at the Country Club exacted the highest winning total in 18 years--Julius Boros's nine-over...
...signal the world that nothing extraordinary had happened. Said Jody Powell, presidential press secretary: "This is not an act of war. It involves violations of maritime law." The Russians also remained studiously calm. Soviet newspapers completely ignored the matter for days, and Kremlin officials were conciliatory in their normal dealings with American diplomats...
ALREADY two different levels of reality appear at work--the "normal" interaction of these characters and Gielgud's obvious interpolations, his artistic mistakes. Gielgud is perfect here, capturing the petulance of the artist whose creative instincts have gone awry. In one scene, Burstyn unintentionally speaks in Gielgud's voice. In another, Warner's brother, a noted footballer, jogs through a bedroom, where Stritch and Bogarde are conversing, on his way to the bathroom. The funniest of these sequences occurs between Burstyn and Warner. As they sit on a park bench together, Warner exclaims with surprise, "I've got an erection...