Word: norms
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...Trent Reznor has come a long way from his humble beginnings as a studio janitor. Thousands of rabid fans worldwide have been counting the days until “Year Zero’s” release, but a cautionary note to those same listeners: this is not the norm for Reznor and co.—and the change might be hard to swallow. As a concept album dealing with religion, mind-control drugs, and a fascist American government, “Year Zero” is set in a world straight out of a Philip K. Dick story...
...intangibles may serve as Amaker’s greatest challenge. Despite his success at Seton Hall and his NIT championship with the Wolverines in 2004, Amaker has been accused of breaking down his veteran players during the season, challenging them to a point that mid-season collapses became the norm in Ann Arbor. Two years ago, Michigan started the season 16-3 before falling in seven of its last nine regular season games to plummet into the NIT, and a similar plummet occurred just last year...
...there's one thing health experts know, it's that you don't influence behavior by telling people what to do. You do it by exposing them to enough cases of people behaving well that it creates a new norm. What made the designated-driver concept catch on in the 1980s was partly that Harvard and the ad agencies it worked with persuaded TV networks to slip the idea into their shows. There's a reason a designated-driver poster appeared in the bar on Cheers, and it's not because it made the jokes funnier...
...been known to embrace unlikely candidates. Remember Governor Jesse Ventura? And at the moment, Franken is well positioned to become the state's Democratic nominee. The outlook for the general election is too early to call: a poll taken just before Franken's announcement had him losing to incumbent Norm Coleman 35% to 57%. A later poll showed the gap at just 10 points...
...dependence," says Jonathan Morduch, an economics professor at New York University. But the most influential microlenders--Yunus' Grameen Bank, FINCA, Accin International--are self-sustaining and profitable. They strip away the bureaucracy common to aid programs of governments and large foundations, and repayment rates of 97% are the norm...