Word: norms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camp classic to be mocked by stoned viewers at the midnight show in the local art house. The Zeitgeist of that generation is now wildly reversed. Public figures who used pot at that time express regret for the transgression. Political survival demands that they not offend the new cultural norm. Marijuana use now carries a moral taint...
...collide, the legal realm, it would seem, is a forum uniquely suited for the allegorical discourse of Black religion to express its faith in redemption and deliverance. The traditional reliance of legal discourse on abstractions such as "equal protection" and "due process" only further conceals the gap between American norm and reality...
...have such commuter marriages, says Fairlee Winfield, a professor of business at Northern Arizona % University. Despite the separations, some of which last ten years and longer, infidelity is apparently rare. Of 297 couples she surveyed, only 8% had affairs while apart; most polls put the national norm for adultery at about 26%. "The fact that they're willing to live with the arrangement indicates a high level of commitment to the marriage in the first place," explains Winfield. Also, she adds, "they're too busy with their careers and commuting back and forth...
...Richard, if so many of us write so poorly, don't you deserve some blame?" His answer is that Expos does a fine job, churning out prize-winning essayists year after year. The trouble, it turns out, begins upon completion of Expos, after which inattention to writing becomes the norm...
...last congressional elections, only 38 percent of the eligible citizens went to the polls. This figure was the lowest in 45 years and in several states the turnout was the lowest since 1798. In effect, Americans are returning to the way of doing political business that was the norm before the civil rights movement...