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1. " Nepotism is the granting of opportunities--economic, political, social--to persons related to the decisionmaker and circumventing normal competitive processes for employment or advancement."

Source:   Howell, Llewellyn D. "An American mentality" USA Today (Magazine) 133.2714 Nov. 1 2004: 29-30 Google This

2. "... other things, for an unseemly preoccupation with fundraising and for circumventing the Department of Justice's normal review process in granting pardons."

Source:   Broadwater, Jeff. "Adler, David Gray, and Michael A. Genovese, eds. The Presidency and the Law: the Clinton Legacy" History: Review of New Books 31.1 Sept. 22 2002: 5-6

3. "... by suggesting that the very linearity and closed logic of the autistic mind is as believable and valid as the normally non-linear way of thinking that we take for granted."

Source:   Shivani, Anis. "The shrinking of American fiction" Antioch Review 62.4 Sept. 22 2004: 680-691 Google This

4. " These controversial court picks are so far out of the mainstream that the Bush/Cheney administration has twice seen fit to bypass the normal process of Senate approval by granting back-door recess appointments."

Source:   Fahn, Larry. "Future generations be damned! The sorry environmental legacy of the Bush administration" Tikkun 19.3 May 1 2004: 27-33 Google This

5. " After my return to good health, intimacy returned to normal and became even more meaningful because we never took our good fortune for granted."

Source:   Settlemire, Ian. "Spouses speak" Ostomy Quarterly 42.1 Sept. 22 2004: 38-43 Google This

6. "... this may have on the prospects for House passage of legislation granting normal trade relations (NTR) to China (Senate passage being taken for granted)."

Source:   . "Myths About Trade" Columbia Journalism Review 39.1 May 1 2000: 38 Google This

7. " Congress must approve legislation granting China permanent, normal trade relations - which currently is granted annually - as part of a trade agreement approved last year that will let China join the World Trade Organization."

Source:   Gertz, Bill. "Beijing is warned to ease rhetoric" Washington Times Mar. 1 2000: 1 Google This

8. " She was, for instance, one of the Congress's most determined advocates for granting China permanent normal trade status."

Source:   Nichols, John. "Feinstein Faces a Double-Team" Progressive 64.8 Aug. 1 2000: 26 Google This

9. " 16. CHINA TRADE BILL - 2:30 P.M. - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a hearing on the implications of granting permanent normal trade relations to communist China."

Source:   . "WASHINGTON DAYBOOK;TODAY'S HEADLINERS" Washington Times July 19 2000: 8 Google This

10. " China has been unusually quiet as it awaits final action by Congress on the bill granting it permanent normal trade relations, but Beijing did state its opposition to Mr. Chen's stopping, even briefly, on U.S. soil."

Source:   Hackett, James. "A missing compass in China connection" Washington Times Aug. 17 2000: 18 Google This

11. "... situation not to show the strangeness or alienness of it but to force the reader to reflect on the situation she normally takes for granted because of its familiarity."

Source:   WEESE, KATHERINE. "Normalizing Freakery: Katherine Dunn's Geek Love and the Female Grotesque" CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 41.4 June 22 2000: 349

12. " The trusty Skepticam also recorded the nonsense about how granting China permanent normal trade relations will somehow usher in democracy."

Source:   Clinton, Kate. "Let's Go to the Skepticam" Progressive 64.7 July 1 2000: 14 Google This

13. "... helped engineer House passage of the bill granting China permanent normal trade relations, both of which were strongly opposed by labor."

Source:   Lambro, Donald. "New Gore tax plan `another change'" Washington Times June 17 2000: 4 Google This

14. " Considerable practical detail emerges, often incidentally, from this wellplanned book, shedding light on the development of features which we normally take for granted, such as..."

Source:   Backhouse, Janet. "Incunabula" History Today 50.6 June 1 2000: 58

15. " Considerable practical detail emerges, often incidentally, from this wellplanned book, shedding light on the development of features which we normally take for granted, such as..."

Source:   Backhouse, Janet. "A History of Reading in the West" History Today 50.6 June 1 2000: 58 Google This

16. " The export-control issue also is expected to be a topic of debate in Congress over granting China permanent normal trade status."

Source:   Gertz, Bill. "Beijing stalls on nuclear promises" Washington Times May 9 2000: 1 Google This

17. "... Supporters and opponents of granting China permanent access to the U.S. market, a status known as permanent normal trade relations (NTR), fought each other to a standstill in members' districts over the two-week congressional recess."

Source:   Dougherty, Carter. "Trade bill fight at standstill" Washington Times May 3 2000: 7 Google This

18. " AFL-CIO RALLY - NOON - The AFL-CIO holds a rally against the granting of permanent normal trade relations status to China."

Source:   . "WASHINGTON DAYBOOK;TODAY'S HEADLINERS" Washington Times Apr. 12 2000: 6 Google This

19. " The comment was a clear signal that Beijing will seek WTO membership regardless of how Congress votes on granting China permanent normal trading relations (NTR) status."

Source:   Dougherty, Carter. "China wants WTO entry, even without normal trade" Washington Times Mar. 14 2000: 1 Google This

20. " A Cuban government spokesman in Washington earlier avoided direct questions about whether Mr. Gonzalez would be granted an exit visa, normally required of any Cuban seeking to visit the United States."

Source:   Carter, Tom. "Havana calls dad `free in principle' to travel to Miami" Washington Times Jan. 5 2000: 9 Google This

21. " The same educators do not take normally hearing students' knowledge of English for granted, even though they use it daily."

Source:   Schein, Jerome D. "Reading, Writing and Rehabilitation" American Rehabilitation 25.3 Dec. 22 1999: 32 Google This

22. "... of depression than did their nonrunaway peers, t(52) 3.04, p [less than] .05. The most common reason street youth gave for their depression was lack of "those things normally taken for granted" (i.e., money, shelter, and food)."

Source:   Ayerst, Sandra L. "DEPRESSION AND STRESS IN STREET YOUTH" Adolescence 34.135 Sept. 22 1999: 567 Google This

23. " When Congress returns to work in January, lawmakers will begin work on a number of key trade issues, most notably granting permanent normal trade..."

Source:   Burn, Timothy. "WTO foes vow to bring fight to Congress, upcoming elections: Coalition poised to use momentum built by Seattle protests" Washington Times Dec. 3 1999: 14 Google This

24. " The focus of the story's criticism was that this was a "lucrative property development" granted to the Pacific Century Group (PCG) without normal tendering procedures."

Source:   . "Contract bidding in Hong Kong will remain a fair process" Washington Times Apr. 22 1999: 22 Google This

25. " Normally, no such license would be granted because of the limitation unless another license already exists in the neighborhood, which it did in this case."

Source:   Geracimos, Ann. "Navigating the regulatory maze: And all Robin Rains wanted to do was open a cozy bistro near Eastern Market" Washington Times Aug. 26 1999: 10 Google This

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