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...Output had tripled, pilfering had plummeted, and alcohol abuse had declined so much that the janitor no longer found enough empty bottles to make a twice-daily trash run into town. The 130 cooperative members earned, on average, 625 rubles ($1,000) a month, about 2 1/2 times the norm for factory workers. Production had begun to meet demand...
Harvard fans tolerated her. Although the woman in the yellow sweater may have been an anomaly in the Harvard crowd, she was the norm in the arena. Of the more than 15,000 fans who attended the NCAA hockey championship game, easily 90 percent were Minnesota fans. The University of Minnesota is located 10 miles from the Civic Center...
...never fear, Coleman will be right in his element when he takes on control-less Missouri Friday. Tiger Coach number-one, Norm Stewart, threatened to beat up a St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter. Tiger Coach number-two, Rich Daly, allows the players to run roughshod over him--refusing to play, refusing to practice, laughing in his face and disparaging him to the press...
Consequently, black schools have had to address one of their oldest financial weaknesses: small and infrequent alumni donations. In November, when Bill and Camille Cosby made a $20 million gift to Spelman College, the event received widespread publicity; yet modest donations have been the norm. That shows signs of changing, however. During the past fiscal year, alumni support at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute topped $1 million for the first time, aided by three gifts of $125,000 or more...
...racist because America is a pluralist society where different experiences should not be ranked in order of desirability with monolithic Anglo-Saxon Protestant sensibilities on top. Anyone who has lived in Hawaii, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico, or New York knows that multicultural and amalgam communities are the norm, not the exception...