One such norm was the relationship between the unemployment rate, currently at 8.3% and the employment rate, currently declining to a rate of 67%.
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At the same time, scooping up stocks at a discount, even a smaller one than would have been the norm in the past, is one way managers can boost returns beyond that of the broader market.
Hard to envision the Yankees going to five years as the norm is one or two years for 36-year old shortstops.
African Americans running for the White House are not the norm, especially one with his credentials.
The situation we are describing here is an extreme one and perhaps not the norm in every GP practice.
Instead, I think our social norm should be one which establishes a higher bar of what it means to be informed.
Most of the aforementioned beer festivals highlight American craft beer, and this one slightly deviates from the norm and offers mostly international beers.
The whole experience had a slightly surreal feel for a sport in which combat at close quarters inside and outside the ring is the norm, but one has to move with the times I guess.
Even with the decline, bullish sentiment is just slightly beyond one standard deviation of its historical norm, making the current reading atypical, but still not an outlier.
Even though prices have dropped 50% or more in some areas of these states, they are all plagued by debt-to-income ratios (DTI) that are still higher than the historical norm of three to one.
However, the norm would be enforced by society in the same way the current one is: by interacting with each other and praising conformity with the norm, and shaming non-conformity.
Everybody knows his name and that of his best friend Norm Peterson, who at one time was an accountant.
Investment as a share of GDP is well below the norm among G7 economies, one reason for those trade surpluses.
"Shacks are becoming the new norm, " explains Andreas Keller, one of the developers of iShack.
Cornell University professor and researcher Karl Andrew Pillemer studies family relationships and says one survey found that parental favoritism is almost the norm.
One reply to my argument for a better social norm is that would-be voters who could be persuaded by such logic are likely above average in terms of how well informed they are.
Such calculations are more art than science: one exercise by the European Central Bank estimated China's norm 16, 384 different ways.
One of those values is what a temporary respite from the norm can do to support emotional growth through bonding with peers.
More scrutiny has become the norm in Russian mergers and acquisitions, because no one wants to buy a company that is later fingered for having bad behavior the past.
So, when one sees the seemingly craziness of the market, it is the norm and not the exception.
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But in effect, the government is saying Italy started the row by "breaching the norm of international law", in the words of one foreign ministry official.
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But that is the norm for Dhaka, a city of 15 million, and one of the world's fastest growing.
This is the typical refutation of tons of valid research, just point out your own personal success (a study of one)and try to sell it as what of course is the norm, and it is not.
One of the most challenging tasks Smith faces is getting more recycled content into the Norm Thompson catalogs.
Climate change has arrived. 2012 is in the books as one of the warmest years on record, and extreme costly weather events are becoming the norm rather than the exception.
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One that says with the right approach to nurturing labor and acceptance of turbulent global markets as a norm, the future will be good.
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As one might expect, NIT bracketologists don't tend to come from places where NCAA bids are the norm.
HILLSBORO, Oregon (CNN) -- One of Derek Smith's first assignments as the corporate sustainability manager for the catalog and retail company Norm Thompson Outfitters was to travel to California to study the environmental impact of cotton growing.
The use of gestures and a focus on one-handed operation is also welcome in a market where 5-inch smartphones are increasingly becoming the norm, and the company has really played to its strengths with BlackBerry Balance, which could be a real selling point in the business and enterprise market.
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It's one of those perks that many employers have incorporated into their policies, but it's still not the norm and most everyone wishes it were.
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