Word: norms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...church ceremony at one university-even if it is Harvard-is more like a bone thrown to the gay and lesbian community than it is a burgeoning national commitment to lesbian and gay issues. Marriage is a way for lesbians and gay men to fit in, to mimic the norm. Same-sex marriage is, in fact, quite conservative; there is no radical departure from social mores, just an attempt to integrate those previously excluded into a culture that is unchanged...
...only time the U.S. military has gone on record saying that flying saucers exist, it has become a cornerstone of belief for the UFO community. They are, by the way, quite a diverse and fractious group of folks--studies say they tend to be better educated than the norm--whose numbers include casual believers; so-called UFOlogists, most of whom are pretty earnest in their efforts to document UFO sightings with something approaching objective rigor; contactees, who believe they have had telepathic communication with aliens; abductees, who believe they have been subjected to experimentation by E.T.s; and cultists like...
Graduating with honors has now become the norm rather than the exception, says former Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell...
...good job as an engineer at Eastman Kodak Corporation, where lifetime employment was the norm. He had recently graduated from Union College and had just married...
...best time is during the summer. Not all summer, or even the heart of summer. Under this plan, the school year would run roughly from Aug. 15 to June 30. It would include about 200 days instead of the current norm of 180. Summer vacation would last six weeks instead of 10. Today, some 100 schools are following this schedule, including a dozen schools in the Edison Project. Edison is accumulating evidence that the idea works...