Word: norms
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Secondly, interracial relationships--the issue I sought to address in my multiethnic dating remark--are still viewed as taboo and as deviating from a supposed "norm." We are all familiar with the derogatory term "Asian fetish" sometimes used to describe a relationship between a non-Asian man and an Asian woman. There, I submit, lies your real racism...
...Foreign Minister, Alexander Bessmertnykh, was at pains to deny that there is any backsliding in Soviet support for the anti-Saddam coalition. Of course there is. The more a state relies on repression at home, the more likely it is to regard intimidation and invasion as the norm abroad...
...Norm Roy, general sales manager at the Checker Cab Company, says the recession is hitting drivers particularly hard in its corporate and tourist aspects: the sense of financial restraint infecting the nation has resulted in less air travel and hotel usage for work and for pleasure, lopping off a significant chunk of taxi business...
Looking back on the West Point years, Norm's old friends still marvel at his single-minded ambition. "He saw himself as a successor to Alexander the Great, and we didn't laugh when he said it," recalls retired General Leroy Suddath, another former roommate. "Norm's favorite battle was Cannae," says Suddath, in which Hannibal in 216 crushed the forces of Rome. "It was the first real war of annihilation, the kind Norman wanted to fight." He desperately wanted to lead his country's forces into a major battle. "We'd talk about these things in the wee hours...
...never personal. He's extremely tough on people when it's necessary to get them to do something, but the next minute he'll throw his arm around their shoulders and tell them what a great job they're doing." If it were at all physically possible, Norm Schwarzkopf's troops would probably do the same to him. The outcome of the gulf war will tell if history wraps him in a similar embrace...