More recently, steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs made a lot of normal players larger than they should have been, and may have played a quiet role in causing some of the injuries that were blamed on a player's bulk.
But this was normal because there was a lot of pressure on this game.
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It takes up a lot of time and the normal result is advice from us to all parties to grow up.
And there is a lot of redundancy built into the normal process.
It may sound like a lot, but it's within the normal range of turnover.
Mr. JEREMY BROWN(ph): We've noticed a lot of mosquitoes around - some bigger than normal - but they flock to you within like three or four seconds of you being around.
And given that Phelps is 27, like many normal guys, as well as other professional athletes, he logs a lot of time playing videogames.
"Many of these people get paid a lot more than the standard salary that's paid to the normal staff, " he said.
There's also a group of lawmakers who question the use of an emergency spending bill for a lot of these new programs that haven't gone through the normal budget process.
In more normal times, the slow-growth companies might go bust - and produce a lot of job losses in the process.
Using a laser, the robot can make highly accurate welds and position itself for each one a lot faster than it could if it were spot-welding in the normal way.
She knew she looked a bit different, and she knew it caused her to be in the hospital a lot, but she had a child's innocence and accepted it as normal.
And you're also not at seeing in a lot of parts of the country essential services that people need to live a normal life, and they need a competent armed forces over there too.
The defenders of that maneuver argue that if Bear Stearns had failed it would have created a lot of collateral damage, so much collateral damage, that you and I, normal folk who don't know anything about high-falutin' financial instruments like "collateralized debt obligations" would have been engulfed as well.
One micro-cap company that has been generating a lot of press over last few days popped onto my screen after trading over forty times its normal share volume on Wednesday May 1.
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It's happening a lot these days thanks to reality TV and social media sites, where it's perfectly normal for people to share every single detail of their lives, no matter how mundane or personal.
With about 2 million excess housing units congesting that market, there's a lot of inventory to be bought by this "smart money" before the housing market gets back to normal.
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