Word: norms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...virtually unbeatable Who Wants to Be a Millionaire against it. Survivor won in almost every audience category. The second week, Survivor won hands down. By the third week--when Regis Philbin, monochrome outfit in tatters, slunk away to lick his wounds, leaving Two Guys and a Girl and Norm to take his butt whuppin' for him--Survivor had ballooned into the biggest TV success since the last voyeur-vision landmark: Fox's gift to late-night comedians, Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? Which--we know, we know--you didn't watch...
...never called homosexual human beings deviants. I have pointed out that homosexual behavior deviates from the norm of heterosexuality and is forbidden by Scriptures. That is basically the context... Even now I get hundreds of letters a week from gays and lesbians who realize the way I'm being presented is nowhere near the truth. I stand behind basic civil rights - where someone is able to live, and work at his job - and always have. The only place where there is a divergence is the issue that I consider sacred: marriage and family structure around children...
...Unlike the other first-year residences, Greenough feels much like a "typical" college dorm. Long narrow hallways, tiny boxy rooms and communal bathrooms are the norm here...
...population of the developed world, many people are already tired of trying to keep up with the latest cool new tech. Youth-driven tech acceleration could be interpreted as simple youthful folly--shortsighted, disruptive, faddish. The market for change could dry up, and lock-in might again become the norm. Stress and fatigue make powerful decelerators...
...Patients shell out a deductible and 20% or so in fees after that. The norm for decades, these plans withered during the '90s managed-care revolution, victimized by rapidly escalating costs...