Word: normalizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night and removed in the morning. They are made of a solid piece of strong plastic and are wrapped around each foot to prevent what is called foot drop. If Reeve did not have that support, his feet would eventually droop; this keeps them at a normal angle. His wrists and fingers have splints on them every night for the same purpose...
Nobody noticed, mainly because they did not know how fluidly he could speak under normal circumstances. His appearance was noted in more than 200 articles, though "I, of course, went off into a corner and beat myself up about having blown my big moment...
...life. On the way out, I would say, 'Oh, thank God.' And now I'm on the other side of the door. And I have to stay in the room and be the one with the problem. And I still have to admit to tremendous jealousy of people doing normal, everyday actions. You know, just putting on a coat and walking down a hallway and opening a door and going outside. Rummaging around in the kitchen cabinet for forks and knives. Using the clicker to change channels on the TV. Taking the steps two at a time. All those things...
...rise above a mire of unresolved sexual-harassment cases. The Japanese automaker has quietly circulated word among U.S. public relations firms that it is searching for a new head of p.r.--with important damage-control prerequisites. The candidate must: be a woman; reside in the assembly-plant town of Normal, Illinois, where the scandal broke; and pass an interview with the plant's Japanese manager. Despite a salary said to be near $200,000 and a requirement of only five years' experience, there have been no takers. Meanwhile, the company is enduring a federal investigation that may involve as many...
Leyden's journey from normal kid to thug and back again, began when he was a teenager in the blue-collar town of Fontana, California. His parents divorced when he was 15, and he became angry, lonely and, most important to skinhead recruiters, vulnerable. "I needed to lash out," he explains. "They look for young, angry kids who need a family." He dropped out of school and began meeting skinheads hanging around the punk-rock scene. The trappings--bomber jacket, shaved head and steel-toed Dr. Martens boots--and hard-line beliefs soon followed. "These were good guys, I thought...