Word: norms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...border on the most sensible sort of paranoia. Israeli pilots and flight attendants, some of the best to come out of mandatory army service, know a thing or two about how to wrest an airplane from terrorists if necessary. Security questionnaires along with seat assignments have long been the norm here...
...years of "momentum investing," in which all that mattered was that someone would buy the hot stock that some greater fool would soon bid up to an even higher price. The price-earnings ratio for the S&P 500 has approached a record 30 this summer, twice its historical norm. Securities analysts, reassessing the impact of the turmoil in Asia and other foreign markets, last week began chopping down their estimates for growth of U.S. corporate profits, to as little as 3% for all of 1998, and zero growth for 1999, a sharp drop from last year's robust...
...Wonder, next June, and Eisner grandly hopes for a 10- or 12-ship fleet, sailing from Florida, California and the Mediterranean, within the next decade. He's betting that the cruise industry, which fills its cabins with discounted fares, can accommodate a competitor that charges 20% higher than the norm (starting at $860 for a three-day cruise, including airfare, compared with $648 on the Royal Caribbean line's Nordic Empress). The ship is heavily subscribed for now, partly because passengers who booked early sailings that had to be canceled were given tickets with 25% off on late-summer cruises...
...high ground. Almost all efforts to increase minority participation in the workplace and on campus have been redefined by opponents as quotas and racial preferences. Lurid stories about white male job seekers or college applicants being passed over for less qualified blacks or women have been accepted as the norm, even though many of the tales turned out to be bogus. Yet the N.A.A.C.P. was in such disarray that it couldn't fight back...
...might hope Eddie Murphy's new comedy would have some of the coarse elan of The Nutty Professor--its parading of his gift for mimicry and disguise. But here he's a physician who not only can talk to the animals (voiced by Norm MacDonald, Albert Brooks, Chris Rock and other familiars) but also has to listen to every cocky word they say. So this very active actor must be mainly reactive. And there's not much humor in 85 minutes of Eddie going...