Attempts by the government to portray the country as returning to normal since the protests began on 25 January, following the upheaval in Tunisia, were less than convincing.
But Syrian government television sought to portray life in the capital as returning to normal, highlighting video from the Midan area, a battleground last week, where cleanup crews were seen wielding brooms and happy citizens heard declaring that the bakery was selling bread again.
†Recovering is defined as "returning to normal for that child".
If inflation were allowed to rise to 5%, for example, people might regard that as permanent and set wages accordingly, even as output returned to normal.
As the nightmare of the day began to recede, as life returned to normal, the idea of building his own memorial took hold.
Even as routines returned to normal this week, a few residents sought ways to help with the recovery effort.
And on Monday, as life returned to normal, The New Yorker ran on its cover a painting by Eric Drooker of a subway departing from Coney Island.
For example, it might take time for potential customers to turn their attention to energy purchasing as business returned to normal.
Manufacturing output jumped by 3.2% in July, as factories returned to normal.Experience suggests that other revisions will follow, perhaps years later.
Ms. Zhang and her husband were among those who missed out on college in Mao's upheaval, and then, as things returned to normal in the late 1970's, were held to a single child by newly stringent family planning rules.
