Word: normalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...please the jet set, but heads of state will be satisfied with good, middle-class American accommodations. Some of the reporters may have to sleep in barracks, but if it's good enough for the Navy . . . Gooney birds are a problem to the planes but a joy to normal human beings. They are beautiful and unafraid, good no-nonsense parents, and they offer lessons in tenacity and calm that some people of our country might well copy...
Immigrants to Ireland began to form second and third branches of the Irish soul. It was and is not uncommon for Souths and Norths in any land to diverge on the issue of charm v. hustle. But in Ireland the normal geographical split was widened by the nature of the settlers. In Ulster, these tended to be tough Presbyterian Scotsmen, with little taste for England but less for the Pope. Their role in an island without history was to keep the 17th century's religious acrimony and long-faced industry alive and to form a kind of museum...
...sell orders. Next month the exchange will relieve crowding by increasing space 20%, opening up an extension to the trading floor. Exchange officials are asking SEC permission to lengthen trading half an hour to a 2:30 p.m. daily close-still an hour earlier than normal...
...million who participate in stock trading through mutual funds, pension funds and trusts. First, the 642 brokerage firms that are members of the exchange have not yet cleaned up the back-office paperwork mess that since last June has kept the Big Board from conducting a normal 271-hour trading week. In addition, commission rates that member brokers charge to stock traders are under attack by the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission and institutional investors. All of them contend that the cuts made in some rates last December did not go far enough. Finally, some member firms...
Informal polls of classrooms during the strike showed that attendance was about on third of normal...