Word: norms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern fans will say not every game at Wrigley will be played under the lights. There will be some day games. But day games will never again be the norm in baseball. The day game, once a baseball institution, is now a rare luxury, kind of like having guacamole with your chips. Or anchovies on your pizza...
...himself up. "The bizarre works fairly well for us," says Giants Owner Bob Bavasi. So do more orthodox gimmicks. The Louisville Redbirds brought in the Beach Boys for a postgame concert at a cost of $100,000. The game drew 22,000 fans to the stadium, three times the norm, while concessions took in $100,000, about four times the usual sales. At the final home game in September, the team will give away a $34,000 Corvette sports car in a random drawing...
Radical activism was far from the norm among students in the early 1960s. "I was not a red-hot, but my social conscience did develop while at Harvard," says Daniel del Solar...
Delaney Smith was a most personable coach of a most likeable team. Post-game cheese and cracker receptions for the players, their families and a small core of dedicated fans were the norm rather than the exception at home games...
...immune system attacks the beta cells. Last October a Stanford University team discovered errant forms of a gene that controls the development and growth of the culprit T cells. The team's conjecture: in Type 1 diabetics, this gene produces a protein badge that differs slightly from the norm in structure, causing the immune system to attack the beta cells. Eventually, the group hopes to find a way to neutralize the harmful effects of the molecule and thus eliminate the need for immune suppressants like cyclosporine...