Word: norms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attended concerts in 1991, and if season subscriptions are off in many places, single-ticket and short-series sales have gone up. Out of the ashes in Denver and New Orleans have risen new player-managed or partnership ensembles, the Colorado Symphony and the Louisiana Philharmonic. Younger audiences -- the norm in Europe, the exception in America -- are showing a new discrimination in what they want to hear...
...Volodya abandoned at the Moscow railway station -- together with thousands of other youngsters who have turned the terminal into a street urchin's paradise. Once victimized by the violent gangsters and pimps who control the sex trade, most children end up addicted to alcohol or drugs. Despair is the norm; suicide is common...
...1970s and '80s, Restic was known as an offensive innovator. His "Multi-Flex" offense tentured many tactics unorthodox at the time. Today, those same tactics putting men in motion, spreading the field, single back and no-back sets--are the norm in college and professional football...
...Williams also says that, as a commander, Powell goes above the norm, describing him as one of the best chairs of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the history of the position. "Even those who disagree with him can't argue with that...that's tautological," Williams says. "He's decisive, articulate, persuasive--and not easily intimidated by high-ranking civilians...
...Harvard in 1971, he was a hotshot fortysomething coach from the Canadian Football League with many unorthodox ideas about how football should be played. Now, as he prepares to leave, his "radical" ideas--such as single-back formations and the importance of a strong passing game--have become the norm in both the college and professional leagues. But Restic is still an oddity in college sports. In this era of "big money" college athletics, Restic has become one of the nation's leading spokespeople for the ideal of the student-athlete and the value of football as a life-shaping...