Word: norms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because it was preoccupied with its internal power struggle, Georgia moved only last week to join the new Commonwealth. Yeltsin told Gamsakhurdia that his country will not be admitted until it restores peace and respect for human rights. Though the West was concerned that such violence could become the norm in other former Soviet republics, recent flare-ups have been limited to ethnically divided Moldavia and the Caucasian states of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Most of the population, says Russian sociologist Yuri Levada, has proved -- for now, at least -- to be "more democratic, more restrained and more peaceful than many...
Gilligan says studies like these have shown how girls' behavior may be different from what was previously perceived as the norm for adolescents. They can "smell bullshit a mile away," says Elizabeth Debold, a fourth-year graduate student who has been involved in many of the Harvard Project's studies...
...Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth," she wrote of earlier theorists in the introduction to her 1982 book." "In the life cycle, the woman has been the deviant...
...purpose was to affirm and enhance, identify and encourage the varieties of cultural and ethic experiences at Harvard, not making everybody conform to one norm, but also not encouraging a separatist mentality, which is what a Third World center tends to do," says Gomes. "We felt that the richness Harvard was beginning to experience through its diversity of students should not be accidental but intentional...
...surely sent shudders deepest through locker rooms, high schools and inner-city homes across the country where teenagers idolize the smiling big man from Lansing, Mich., who managed to rise from a family of 12 to become a role model around the world. "Clearly this is tragic," said Norm Nickens, chairman of the National Minority AIDS Council. "But we couldn't ask for a better spokesman...