Word: norms
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...alone in my failings. There's nothing more stereotypically green than an avid recycler - and nothing more rare in real life. Though environmentalists have been pushing recycling for years now, and curbside pickup is increasingly the norm, recycling rates in America remain low. We care about reducing waste and saving the Earth, but sometimes it's Thursday night, Lost is on - and dividing the trash is just too much trouble...
...over speakers, delegate rules, the party platform and the critical issue of when to schedule roll-call votes. For a party with a reputation for disorganization, divergent agendas could mean chaos. Instead of being able to script the convention as a four-day coronation of their presidential nominee--the norm in recent elections--Democrats would be putting on a weeklong advertisement of their disunity...
...diseases - and few scientists know more about the topic than Patz, a member of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (Hear Patz talk about global warming and health on this week's Greencast.) As temperatures increase, and hotter, drier summers become the norm in regions that were once temperate, powerful heat waves - like the one in Europe in 2003, which killed an estimated 35,000 people - will take a toll. At the same time, climate models suggest that rain could become less frequent overall but more intense when it does fall, leading...
...employed at one time or another by most presidential operations to get through tight spots. But the debts tend to be short-lived and modest, rarely exceeding a few million dollars. While the exact size of Clinton's debt has fluctuated, Democratic party officials say, hers remains above the norm in size for a campaign at this stage of a race...
...percent of all reported sexual cases are male-perpetrated, according to the Department of Justice.Yet the dialogue surrounding sexual assault has also predominantly been pegged as a women’s issue. Harvard Men Against Rape, a growing group of Harvard males, has tried to reverse the social norm that sexual assault is a female issue, separate from the male world. “Men should be expected to speak out and try to create a culture of manhood that does not look to violence to make them feel good about themselves or dominant,” said HMAR member...