Word: norms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lived with his wife and two kids. Exhausted, he fell asleep behind the wheel and slammed into a telephone pole. His death last month has prompted many professionals in the world's most glamorous industry to call for an end to the grueling hours that are now the norm behind the scenes--a problem that has become even more endemic as studios rush to complete the megabudget "event" movies currently in vogue...
...have witnessed our workers digging through the trash to retrieve fruit and other foods...to try to get something to eat," he wrote. "It's hard to believe that this company has stooped so low to reduce costs." Landau responds that Mexican workers were treated far better than the norm in that country...
...like that Dunster has Roland Tan, our flamingly gay [former] House Committee chair," says Julia E. Starkey '97. "In Dunster House, in general...deviating from the norm, being a big freak parade is okay...
...they have long since become accustomed to this President's scandals. The public has been presented by the media with a heavy rotation of Bill Clinton scandals since the New Hampshire primary of 1992. That amounts to over five years of non-stop scandal. Since scandals have become a norm, rather than a deviation, I would venture to say that the only thing that would worry the public would be the sudden disappearance of scandals. The average Joe figures that "those bastards in Washington are gonna be up to something rotten," so he may as well know what...
Undergraduate Council member Steven Mitby challenged this norm and the result is telling. The day after Mitby spoke against a bill urging the University to add "transgendered" to its non-discrimination policy, he found a threatening note complete with a hand-written swastika taped to his dorm room door...