Word: norms
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...hectic day is the norm for the NBC news anchor, as roughly 12 hours are invested in producing the 22-minute segments which millions of Americans watch each night...
...vocabulary. And although Russians can boast of ancient proto-democratic institutions like the village mir or the veche of Novgorod, where consensus decisions were reached at a kind of town meeting, centralized rule by an all-powerful executive--whether Czar or Communist Party General Secretary--has been the political norm throughout Russian history. The country simply has no democratic culture. It experimented briefly with limited parliamentary democracy before the 1917 revolution. The present era of quasi-democratization was inaugurated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989 with elections for a new Congress of the People's Deputies. But these two periods offer...
...When we were kids growing up in Cambridge, we didn't lock our doors," Atkins says. "Violent crimes were rare. Now violent crimes are the norm...
Sociologist Arlie Hochschild calls it the "stalled revolution." Since the '70s, women have poured into the workplace, compelled by economic necessity and personal ambition, to the point where dual-wage-earner families are now the norm. Yet somehow neither work nor the family has changed enough to make this a tenable situation. Day care is still catch as catch can. Employers still demand 110%, while spouses and children still need clean socks and a ride to the dentist. Add stagnating wages and layoff anxiety, and for millions of Americans, each week becomes a stressful triage between work and home that...
...unashamedly. But as a society, do we not want this most fearful act--killing--to be done fearfully? If it must be done at all--and in the most extreme and pitiable circumstances it will--let it be done with trembling, in shadow, in whispered acknowledgment that some fundamental norm is being violated, even if for the most compassionate of reasons...