Word: norms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this summer, he said, has been much closer to the norm. Six days in 1989 have been hotter than 90 degrees, compared to 13 at this time in 1988. On average, a total of 12 days break the 90-degree mark each year, so this summer is right on schedule...
...Smokin' Joe for the title in '73. Then, the next year, the nightmare of Africa at 4 in the morning, and the specter of Ali in the ropes, taunting him with a whisper, "Is that all you got, George?" before knocking him out in the eighth. Says his friend Norm Henry, a California fight promoter: "He looks at Tyson, and he sees Frazier all over again...
...Horner said," economic need and reality have made the working mother a model and a norm," and working mother "burnout" will be one of the next generation's most pressing problems...
...Output had tripled, pilfering had plummeted, and alcohol abuse had declined so much that the janitor no longer found enough empty bottles to make a twice-daily trash run into town. The 130 cooperative members earned, on average, 625 rubles ($1,000) a month, about 2 1/2 times the norm for factory workers. Production had begun to meet demand...
Harvard fans tolerated her. Although the woman in the yellow sweater may have been an anomaly in the Harvard crowd, she was the norm in the arena. Of the more than 15,000 fans who attended the NCAA hockey championship game, easily 90 percent were Minnesota fans. The University of Minnesota is located 10 miles from the Civic Center...