Word: norms
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...date, 1,200 children -- the oldest of whom is now four -- have "listened" to the recordings. Last year 50 of the youngsters, ranging in age from six months to 34 months, were given standardized language, social and motor-skills tests. Their overall score was 25% above the national norm...
...What is particularly unusal about Naomi is her ability to attack the same subject from many different points of view," says Norm Carlin, who studied with Pierce in the Biology Department at exocrine biology--she's remarkably well-versed in a number of different areas...
...What is particularly unusal about Naomi is her ability to attack the same subject from many different points of view," says Norm Carlin, who studied with Pierce in the Biology Department at exocrine biology--she's remarkably well-versed in a number of different areas...
...Evil has great momentum, but the forces of good are inert. The masses . . . have no fight in them, and will acquiesce in whatever happens." Until last week the Russian character was judged to be politically passive, even receptive to brutal rule. At first the coup seemed to confirm the norm. The news administered a dark shock, followed immediately by a depressed sense of resignation: of course, of course, the Russians must revert to their essential selves, to their own history. Gorbachev and glasnost were the aberration; now we are back to fatal normality. "Every country has the government it deserves...
Corked bats. Rampaging fans. Wife swapping. Not the sort of stuff that's found on baseball TRADING CARDS -- until now. The new Foul Ball series features some of baseball's most inglorious moments. Among them: slugger Norm Cash's confession that he used doctored bats, the nights on which beer-addled fans in Cleveland and Chicago forced forfeits, and the time when two Yankee pitchers swapped their wives, children and even family dogs...