Word: normalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening round of the ECAC Division One hockey play-offs, and first-place Boston University is hosting some luckless eight-place straggler, in this case Vermont. That's normal. It's late in the second period in that game, and the score is 3-0. That's also normal. What's not normal is that the Catamounts are in the lead, and the Terriers and their fans are getting desperate...
Reasoned a senior Administration official: "Why should we hurt ourselves by stopping our efforts to enhance our now normal relationship with China? Let's not be so hysterical about this that we do things that endanger our interest." Said one Sino-Soviet expert: "Secretly, I revel in this sort of thing. Of course, there are hazards in it; there is the danger that the war could upset the stability of the entire region. But from a strictly hardheaded standpoint, the best thing might be that there is no outcome to the Sino-Vietnamese-Soviet conflict, that they all sort...
...about cities and technicians. The cult of Mao in its day had religious overtones, but the Chinese people on the whole seem capable of seeking happiness without benefit of revealed religion. This is what made them so interesting to philosophers of the 18th century Enlightenment. Fanaticism is not their normal state of mind. Under Mao they carried through a very considerable social revolution and the Chinese leadership in coming years is not likely to forget about it. Chinese common sense is also reinforced by Chinese poverty. They have not suffered the affluence derived from great oil exports. In short, their...
...leaders can persuade the Marxist-led oilfield workers to start the wells pumping soon again, even though Ayatullah Khomeini has ordered them back to work. At best, production would rise slowly to a maximum of about 3 million bbl. per day within six months. Increasing the flow to the normal 5.8 million bbl. would require the return of foreign technicians, an unlikely possibility. Yet, said Schlesinger, unless Iran begins substantial production soon, frequent shortages of gasoline will show up this summer, and the U.S. will not be able to rebuild its stocks to avoid a scarcity of heating oil next...
...read too much into the restoration of normal relations with China, it made the same mistake with Vietnam. Because the U.S. has refused to recognise Vietnam, it has forfeited any ability to ameliorate events in Southeast Asia. Again, American policy makers have held that the U.S. should establish diplomatic relations with Vietnam only after Vietnam meets all the preconditions normally worked out in the context of diplomatic relations...