Word: normally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medical revolution before it, the field of gene therapy began with the vision of a brighter future. Researchers promised to cure such hereditary disorders as cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and sickle-cell anemia, not with conventional medicine but with the magic of genetic engineering, supplanting defective genes with their normal counterparts. Patients dreamed of a life free of the diseases they had inherited. Venture capitalists dreamed of untold riches and backed the leading researchers in the field with millions of dollars of seed money...
...therapy that had been regarded as among the farthest along. Reporting in separate articles in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, researchers concluded that the most commonly used genetic treatments for cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy had run into a dead end. In both cases, scientists inserting normal genes into patients with defective ones were not able to elicit corrective changes in their patients' bodies...
...situation this fall was especially bad. The activation of student phone lines fell behind schedule, with glib promises of speedy activation simply going unmet. All of this was on top of the normal problems that plague HSTO at the beginning of each school year, including egregious billing errors and extremely slow line repairs. We may only be students, but as consumers we deserve better than this...
Citing the Rights and Responsibilities Resolution, Lewis said last week, "Interference with members of the University in performance of their normal duties and activities must be regarded as unacceptable obstruction of the essential processes of the University...
...hangers-on, women, a car; kills more people; is jailed; gets out; kills; is shot. As Irish writer Eoin McNamee, 33, imagines the progression in Resurrection Man (Picador USA; 233 pages; $21), his terse, forceful first novel, it is not the fact of random murders, which of course are normal, that makes the city uneasy and somehow complicit. It is the gaudiness of the knifework, the unseemly calling of attention, that feels wrong. As the killings continue, the language of official statements quoted in news reports slides instinctively toward euphemism. People speak in ambiguities. Belfast does not want to know...