Word: norms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such solitary crank use isn't the norm in Billings. Crank is a party drug here, a social thing, smoked, injected and snorted by tight-knit groups holed up in houses behind blacked-out windows, talking nonstop about their hopes and dreams and smoking a joint now and then or drinking a beer to mellow out the high...
...NORM MACDONALD MacDonald, once of Saturday Night Live, stars in and co-wrote Dirty Work, opening June...
...such impassioned controversy or reached so large an audience. Museums, especially in the U.S., had to embrace newness or look retro. The century didn't see the birth of the avant-garde--that had happened earlier--but it did bring its death, after experiment and eccentricity became the norm. Inevitably, all that had seemed startling or threatening came to look normal, even classical, within a few decades. In the end, the new lost its power to shock...
William H. Boardman Jr., associate director of development for capital giving, accounts for these deviations from the successful norm by saying that some areas are inherently more attractive to donors than others...
Many question the reasons for this departure from the norm and assert the need for a uniform tenure process...