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By any normal measure, a Republican clobbering a Democrat in a city where the latter outnumber the former by five to one, where unemployment is double the national average, where the schools are crumbling and where few people actually like him should count as an electoral phenomenon.
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That it now seems normal is a measure of how far once-radical work, such as this, has been accepted as mainstream.
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The researchers found that all the poor readers, while normal in nearly every other measure of hearing, had problems distinguishing closely-spaced tones.
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Many see it as an anti-consumer measure that limits what normal people are able to do with their own property.
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For sellers, particularly foundations and boards that are run by conservative trustees, a guarantee represents a measure of safety absent in the normal auction process.
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It is normal for wave C to be related to wave A by a measure of 138.2%.
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Another good sign is the Senate passed a measure in December that would clear the way for Permanent Normal Trade Relations with Russia.
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That is surely quite different: a painful emergency measure, not a brilliant wheeze for running an economy in more normal times.
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Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.
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But, with no time left for a normal committee and report stage, ministers will need cross-party consensus to get the measure into law.
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